Born in 1984, Emran Sohel is a freelance artist based in Dhaka. He has completed his BFA and MFA degree on Drawing and Painting from the Kala Bhavana of Visva-Bharati University, otherwise known as Santiniketan, West Bengal (India). Emran Sohel’s academic years at Visva-Bharati, from 2007 to 2013, has inspired him to explore multidisciplinary art practices in a local and global context of modernity, post modernity in terms of his own experience, place and history. He has explored several ways of expression through painting, assemblage, sculptural installations, performance, interactive projects and others.

From his academic period he has participated in many group exhibitions, workshops, site-specific art project and residency program in Bangladesh and India. He is also one of the founding members of Daagi Art Garage.

Work Concept:

I value all my momentary thoughts equally no matter if they are relevant or completely irrelevant. In the same way sometimes I present or execute both relevancy and irrelevancy together which may not always make sense to some people. But I believe that this nothingness in sense is also important. It can be compared to the lack of sense between the word zero and its meaning.

My everyday actions are a result of my artistic purposes and thoughts. In this life, I myself am a work of art and the process through which I am leading my life is art. All these realizations led to the materialization of my performances where the body is used in a metaphoric way in the public space, depicting my thoughts on the actions of the society, their reasoning and process.