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

The exhibition presents new and existing photographic and textile works produced in Bangladesh in collaboration with marginalised indigenous communities in her home country. The body of work titled ‘Redeem’ was begun in 2020 and is produced as part of a collaborative project engaging with the social issues surrounding mass religious conversion among indigenous communities in Bangladesh.To produce these works, Rahman spends time with individuals within the villages, creating portraits and collaboratively sewing woven textiles from material sourced within the villages where they live, including disused saree. The work presented in ‘The typology of wounds, the mapping of healing’ is the second and third in the series produced with Santal and Dalit communities.