Durjoy Rahman, the founder of the Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation
Like many organisations, the Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation saw its programming curtailed during the pandemic. In the first of this two part feature, Rebecca Anne Proctor reports on plans to make up for precious lost time in its mission to bridge different geographic and conceptual worlds of art
When the Nepalese artists and curators Hit Man Gurung and Sheelasha Rajbhandari staged ?Garden of Six Seasons?, a group exhibition at Hong Kong?s Para Site (15 May ? 15 November 2020), they couldn?t have imagined that just two years later a version of the show would be held in Berlin during the summer of 2022. Held at SAVVY Contemporary, an independent art, cultural and community space (from 10 June to 10 July), the exhibition, which is now titled ?Garden of 10 Seasons?, brings the work of Gurung and Rajbhandari full circle: from the Far East to the West in the effort to promote art from the Global South and flip a Western-centric vision of the world. Artworks by Joydeb Roaza. Courtesy of Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation and the artist
A precursor to the recent Kathmandu Triennale 2077 ? that took place in Kathmandu, Nepal, from 11 February to 31March ? the Hong Kong exhibition, which they presented with the artistic director Cosmin Costinas, displayed artworks showcasing various interpretations of the garden as a metaphor for mankind?s relentless efforts to control nature and reconstruct the world order. The show in Ho...