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In conversation with prominent Bangladeshi artist Rokeya Sultana as she showcases her retrospective exhibition in the capital city.
Renowned Bangladeshi artist Rokeya Sultana’s exhibition finally sees the light of the day in India as she exhibits her 40 years of work at Lalit Kala Akademi and further the exhibition will travel to Kolkata and Dhaka this year.
The exhibition comprises of 111 artworks, 35 to 40 photographs, 3 animation videos, 1 film and 15 pieces of sculptures. Sultana’s artistic oeuvre that spans over forty years is showcased through a selection of her art that includes significant works from her best-known figural series ‘Madonna’ and ‘Relations’; her abstract interpretations of the Bangladeshi landscape and natural world in the ‘Earth Water Air’ sequence; and the print series ‘Fata Morgana’.
Sultana was born in Chittagong in 1958 at a time when the country was still considered East Pakistan. It gained independence in 1971. She was…