Prominent artist Firoz Mahmud has participated in an art symposium titled In conjunction with No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia, which ended yesterday in Hong Kong.
Firoz Mahmud participated in the symposium as one of the 10 guest speakers.
Asia Society Hong Kong Center organised the event with the aim of contextualising the exhibition thesis as well as to enhance the exhibition experience. The symposium brought together scholars, curators, and artists to address the region’s complicated historical, political, and social entanglements through contemporary art.
Mahmud did PhD and research from Tokyo University of the Arts. He works in interdisciplinary media including installation, photography, video, painting and drawing on photograph. Most of his works are based on indigenous past and present, political ideas of nationalism, humour, belief and stratifications within daily life.