Artists from around the world, including Bangladesh, Indonesia and Italy, came together for the Third Majhi International Art Residency in Eindhoven; and their installations on show in the 1918 Steentjeskerk church
Like many organisations, the Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation saw its programming curtailed during the pandemic. In the second of this two part feature, Mark C O’Flaherty reports on the Majhi Residency, in which he saw artists from South Asia take over a church in Eindhoven, overcoming travel restrictions and bureaucracy to do so
Sometimes art takes on a significance and poignancy through timing and circumstance, like Andy Warhol?s ?Sixty Last Suppers? silkscreens, completed shortly before the artist?s death in 1987, or the ballerinas of Tchaikovsky?s ?Swan Lake? performing their pas de chat on a loop on Russian state TV, marking the end of the Soviet Union. The theme of the Third Majhi International Art Residency, held at the historic Steentjeskerk church last October, was ‘Land, Water and Border ‘?inviting a group of artists from a broad range of geographic locations, to explore their individual and collective experiences of the roles played by each of the elements in the title in their lives, along with the politics, culture, heritage, nature and technology associated with them. Interactive installation by Yu Zhang, ‘3 Screens [land; water; border]Its timing, initiated by the Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation, was apposite, marking 50 years of B...