Basel | ArtRegion: Basel - Oberrhein

Vitrine Gallery

Ashfika Rahman: The typology of wounds, the mapping of healing

19. September 2021 – 9. Januar 2022

‘The typology of wounds, the mapping of healing’ is Bangladeshi artist Ashfika Rahman’s first solo show in Europe. The exhibition presents new and existing photographic and textile works produced in Bangladesh in collaboration with marginalised indigenous communities in her home country.
Rahman’s practice originates from photography, a medium that she utilises to research and document marginalised and oppressed groups in her homeland. Evolving beyond documentation, the artist activates collaborations within specifically chosen villages to share their often sad and horrific experiences as a largely disenfranchised populous; communities whose histories and cultures are being erased by the harsh and violent policies and ideologies of the state and social elite of the country. The artist spends considerable periods of time with these people, producing bodies of work which bring these issues to the attention of her country as well as raising awareness about these alarming threats on humanity.