The Bangladesh-based visual artist Ashim Halder has completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree on Ceramics from the Faculty of Fine Art of the University of Dhaka.

He is the founder of the contemporary art group Artpro Art Initiative, owner of Matial studio and a member of the Britto Arts Trust.

The artist has participated in numerous local and international exhibitions such as his first three solo exhibitions which were consecutively titled ‘Philology of Time’, ‘Contemporary Artifacts’ and ‘Moving Roots’. Among his international ventures the II International Triennial of Ceramics UNICUM 2012 in Ljubljana, Slovenia; KUNSTVLAAI Festival of Independents at Amsterdam, Netherlands; the Fourth ASNA Clay Triennial at Karachi, Pakistan and his participation in the Sandwich Inc. & Tokyo Wonder Site Residency Program ’2013/14 in Japan are noteworthy.

Work Title: Remember to Forget -2

Duration: 60 minutes

Remember to Forget-2 is my continual journey for my performance exploration. Nowadays people are always burdened by their future dreams or their past emotions. But we fail to realize that every moment we’re changing with our surroundings. And I’m being changed in the same way through my artistic journey.

These days, in the middle of the booming global communication, we are used to forget fast and build the future by remembering to hope quickly. These rapid processes of being born to reborn, build to rebuild, and remembering to forget are unfortunate and offensive somehow. To me, there are some things that I can’t forget or sometimes I don’t want to. In many ways, I should remember to forget something.