Performance with body, white blanket wear, barbwire ‘chadoa’ (canopy), barbwire prayer rug, white stone, black ‘kaiton’ (ribbon), white feather, pigeon, stone, rope, sound from mobil recorded destruction took place in occupied Gaza, 4 hour, December 1 , 2014, 16th Asian Art Biennial
Aminul Islam Young Artist Award Exhibiiton, Bengal Arts Program, 2015
Photo: Munem Wasif
‘5000 feet, the best’ is a quote by a former US military when he was referring to the border lessness of drone attacks. The collective helplessness of drone attacks for lives, societies, villages and cities are related to a kind of anonymity that turns loss and destruction into supernatural power. In South-Asian regions drone attacks are standing opposite the idea of barbwire borders where border killings take place in the name of territorial subjugation. The balance between life and death, who will survive and who will die, whose lives are expendable and whose not- all bring forth the question of power and subjugation. I wanted to portray the collective powerlessness of the lost lives that become anonymous under a caged world of power who have nothing to do but seeking recluse from prayers.