Firoz Mahmud

Drawing Reverberation

At the core of Firoz Mahmud’s practice are drawings, paintings, sculptures, and photo images that engage with his cultural, historical, migrational, mythological, and political landscapes from South Asia and the Bengal region. The 'Drawing Reverberation' series of paintings, wood carvings, and drawings delineate how foreign immigrant emperors migrated from Persia to South Asia and colonized chronically in the Bengal region for centuries. The project also extends Bengal legacy and history as well as the British East Indian colonial era and their trade and rule all over South Asia and its epicenter in Bengal. Most of these works depict the social past, evidence of things left behind, Islamism, history, myth, and beliefs of the past. 

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