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BANGLADESH


2003

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BANGLADESH
2003

Dhaka

“It wasn’t the plan for me to become an artist. This is a man’s profession whereas a girl should prepare for marriage. When my father fell very ill, I had to help him, and this is how I really came to learn the profession.” Nasima

Abstracts

"(…) In Dhaka, I told my host that I intended to take a stroll around the big market. 'But you’re not going to walk there? It’ll take you at least fifteen minutes! Take the driver, it won’t take you more than three-quarters of an hour. It’ll be air-conditioned… Spare yourself the heat and dirt on the street!' (…) So often, I’ve had the time to observe, from my air-conditioned carriage, myriads of cycle rickshaws weaving between stationary cars.

I asked around to find out if perhaps there were women who decorated these colorful vehicles. People would look back at me, their eyes widened in surprise: women worked, they transported beams on construction sites, they did the toughest jobs, at a stretch they might work in textile factories – but as for exercising the noble art of painting rickshaws! What a crazy idea! But I ended up finding this artist: Nasima."

Extract from Zoé Zoé, Femmes du mondes, 2007, Éditions Gallimard

Works

BANGLADESH 2398
Bibi, 2003

Dhaka, Bangladesh
Gouach on fabric
75 x 45 cm

BANGLADESH 3505
Bibi 2, 2003

Dhaka, Bangladesh
Gouach on fabric
75 x 45 cm

BANGLADESH 3507
Bibi 3, 2003

Dhaka, Bangladesh
Gouach on fabric
24 x 30 cm

BANGLADESH 2405
L'atelier de tissage, 2003

Dhaka, Bangladesh
Gouach on fabric
30 x 24 cm

BANGLADESH 2413
Sumi, 2003

Dhaka, Bangladesh
Gouache on paper
66 x 42 cm

BANGLADESH 2417
Kabari, 2003

Dhaka, Bangladesh
Gouache on paper
42 x 33 cm

BANGLADESH 2419
Kabari 2, 2003

Dhaka, Bangladesh
Gouache on paper
42 x 66 cm

BANGLADESH 2421
Kabari 3, 2003

Dhaka, Bangladesh
Silver print
24 x 30 cm

BANGLADESH 2423
Dhaka, 2003

Bangladesh
Silver print
24 x 30 cm

Maps

BANGLADESH 2390
Map of India and Bangladesh, 2003

Gouache on paper
80 x 120 cm

Making-of

Film by Marc Jampolsky

Photo by Delphine Bole

Books

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