Zihan Karim, STAB IN THE DARK, 2023

A true event that happened in the past. Hearing the circumstance, how do we keep imagining the space-time-person of that event from a distance and how can that imagination be visualized through more events or processes? The video installation ‘stab in the dark’ (2023) revolves around the reality of a Bengali applying as an asylum seeker in the UK. There is a proverb in Bengali, “Andhkare Dhil Chora” translated as “achieving objectives with assumptions”, this work involves a process of metaphorically viewing events from different perspectives through various dialogues, performance videos, sounds, and installation.
 
Zihan Karim (1986 Chittagong, Bangladesh) explores the subtleties of time, space, light, and societal issues through the syntax of video, space, projection, and objects. Affected by the current political situation in Bangladesh, he focuses on the concept of disappearing, hopes to create dialogues between the reality (or attempted to-be truth) and the imaginary.
 
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Group Exhibition: Folded Eight Times, A.P.T Gallery 30 March - 2 April 2023
Postgraduate Degree Shows: Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross SE14, 20-25 July 2023