EPAR OPAR

Anindita Banerjee, Bhiktoria’s Secrets, 2022, interactive performance installation. Photograph by Karan Mistry

Anindita Banerjee, Bhiktoria’s Secrets, 2022, interactive performance installation. Photograph by Karan Mistry.

Anindita Banerjee | Neel Banerjee and Rajdeep Roy | Mita Chowdhury | Rakini Devi  | Tasmina Khan Majles | Nira Rahman | Shinjita Roy | Sharmin huq Sangeeta 

The Bengali identity can never surpass the melancholy of the partition of Bengal implemented during the colonisation of the subcontinent.

EPAR OPAR in Bengali essentially means the two sides of the border.

Activated by the desire to disentangle the relationships and socio-political agendas inherited from the colonial era, the eight projects in EPAR OPAR aimed to examine the experience of living in a diaspora where ‘the border’ between West Bengal in India and Bangladesh vanishes.

When

  • Monday, 22 January 2024 | 09:00 AM - Friday, 15 March 2024 | 05:00 PM

Location

Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery, 32A Greenwood Avenue, Ringwood, 3134, View map

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