The Korean Cultural Centre India is happy to announce the  opening of Exhibition (Dis)Place on 7th December 2018 from 5:30 pm onwards at the Baek Nam Jun Hall, Korean Cultural Centre India. Co-curated by Hadrien Diez and Tanzim Wahab, '(Dis)Place' is an exhibition of contemporary art and presents the works of 10 artists and 1 research collective from Bangladesh. It touches upon topics as urgent to that specific place as they are to the world: shifting environments, migration, marginalisation, economic or cultural appropriation. The show further discusses related issues of borders and place(s) ownership, and of utopian sensibilities vis-à-vis forced displacements.

Displaying artworks and spatialising archives, '(Dis)Place' inquires about the specifics of Bangladesh – the "local" – while it also attempts to bring perspective into the very notion of place. Sketching the contours of a place while discussing what place as an idea might entail is a paradox underlying the project. 

(Dis)Place is supported by KCCI through a grant for curatorial proposals 'from India and other SAARC Countries'. Aiming to think through exhibition practices and to address the notion of the region, the grant was awarded to Bangladesh-based curators Tanzim Wahab and Hadrien Diez. FICA supported KCCI for the selection process of applications, which was made by a jury comprising Jeebesh Bagchi (artist/curator, Raqs Media Collective), Sonia Khurana (video and performance artist), Junebum Park (video artist and Art Advisor, KCCI), and Vidya Shivadas (Director, FICA).

The exhibition will open on Friday 7 December at 5.30pm and will continue until 22 February, 2018 - Korean Cultural Center in India, 25-A Ring Rd, Lajpat Nagar - IV, New Delhi

Participating Artists & Research Collective:

Shahidul Alam

Tayeba Begum Lipi

Ronni Ahmmed

Najmun Nahar Keya

Afsana Sharmin Zhumpa

Shimul Saha

Zihan Karim

Sarker Protick

Sayed Asif Mahmud

Md.Shamsul Arifin

Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements

Curated by: Hadrien Diez & Tanzim Wahab