Dipa Mahbuba Yasmin the founder of Epiphania Visuals has received the Research & Development Award by Transforming Narratives, Birmingham. Dipa has been acknowledged for contributing to contemporary art and being the pioneer of the gender art movement of Bangladesh.
We are delighted to share that in 2019, Dipa Mahbuba Yasmin the founder of Epiphania Visuals has received the Research & Development Award by Transforming Narratives, Birmingham.
TN is an international programme that links creative practitioners and organisations in Birmingham, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The programme aims to create a platform for new and emerging artistic voices, leading to meaningful and long-lasting relationships between the three spaces. Transforming Narratives is managed by Culture Central, supported by Arts Council England.
Dipa has been acknowledged for contributing to contemporary art and being the pioneer of the gender art movement of Bangladesh. She also received funding from the Arts Council of England to transform her research into visual art. This exhibition is going to present all those research visuals & prospects. It deals with art forms that evolved over the centuries and encompass the sexual diversity of several social & cultural groups of Bangladesh.
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A two-month-long exhibition entitled “When Speech is Forced Down, Art Must Speak” will be held in February 2022. The Midlands Arts Center, Birmingham (MAC) will present the exhibition in partnership with the Art Council of England and Transforming Narratives as part of the Birmingham 2022 Festival for the Commonwealth Games.
By that exhibition viewers will find different discourses of art ranging from folk to modern forms, elements that have been an integral part of Bangladeshi culture, combining the influences of Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity. The ideas are expressed in various forms including art craft; music-dance-drama; folklore etc. Themes explore gender identities including asexuality, sexual diversity, and queer experiences through art, film, and craft. Although many of the artists are not formally trained in the field of fine arts, their art has nonetheless acquired a unique and powerful visual language. It also serves as a means to strong collective activism. Through their work, the artists express themselves and their surroundings, addressing different views of gender politics. The project is to trial theories that examine what queer projects in local government contexts could contribute to positive cultural change and the processes by which that might occur most effectively.
