Manir Mrittik
Manir Mrittik’s (b.1975) works across a range of media and techniques such as photography, weaving, drawing, painting and technologies drawn to software and gaming. He formulates original propositions through an idiosyncratic approach to photography, where the printed image is augmented by various interventions. Mrittik’s oeuvre investigates personal memory, accepted histories and our relationship to temporality. It explores the dialectical experience of the self vis-à-vis dominant narratives such as the Modern postulate of universal art history. Mrittik’s self-portraits and tableaux vivants are ambivalent: they stage imagined drama where the artist constantly traces new relations between his personal life, the hierarchies of the artistic tradition and the materiality of the world he lives in.
Manir completed his Master’s from the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. He has had multiple solo and group exhibitions including the Dhaka Art Summit, 2014; Chobi Mela VIII, organized by Drik, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, 2015; Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York,2016; Contours: Practices from Beyond the Border at Akar Prakar, New Delhi, 2023; Its Personal at Akar Parakar, New Delhi, 2023 and Bare Liminal at Akar Prakar, Kolkata, 2024. In India, he had his first solo exhibition, “In The Realm of Ambivalence” at Akar Prakar, New Delhi in 2018. The artist works and lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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