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🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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In Dhaka, Bangladesh, artist Bishwajit Goswami creates a powerful new installation that captures the spirit of his homeland’s rivers, lifelines darkened by pollution, yet still full of energy, beauty, and memory. Reporter Sahar Zand follows Bishwajit as he prepares for a major international exhibition in Paris. From his artist-led rooftop community space in a former tannery, to the crowded, chaotic riverbanks of Dhaka, Sahar traces the origins of a deeply personal artwork shaped by conversations, rituals, and found materials gathered along the river’s edge.
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0:00.0 | Boat just reached one port and meet different people. |
0:08.0 | People ask him, hey, who are you? |
0:11.0 | Where are we going? |
0:12.0 | He replied, who knows? |
0:15.0 | Today we don't know where we are going. |
0:18.0 | Who knows? |
0:22.7 | I just go with that flow. |
0:25.7 | I find a path, like a river. |
0:27.1 | I don't know my destiny. |
0:29.1 | It's very infinity. It's mysterious. |
0:33.7 | So river yollars go here and then, and finally they connect ocean. |
0:43.1 | Welcome to the documentary in the studio from the BBC World Service. I'm Sahar Zand, |
0:49.1 | exploring the world of one of Bangladesh's leading contemporary artists, Bishujod Goswami. |
0:56.8 | This is Bishu Jad Goswami. I'm an artist, art educator, and also founder of Bihata Art Foundation. |
1:00.8 | I am also practicing in curating. So this is me. |
1:03.5 | What themes do you tend to cover in your art? |
1:08.4 | So there's six elements. They are the most important increase. |
1:17.9 | Maamati Manus, Basha Shadeshprakriti, that means mother, soil, people, language, motherland, and nature. |
1:21.6 | And how it's also makes some connection. |
1:24.5 | There is an interaction, one to other. |
1:31.9 | These are the identity of my nature, my culture, my way of understanding my life. |
1:41.3 | Bishoget is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, sculpture and performance. His art is abstract, deeply conceptual and often shaped by the creative process itself. |
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