Reincarnated Valiance (durjoy222), an exhibition of artwork by Firoz Mahmud, has been created using several media of art on freedom fighters who hard fought during Liberation War in 1971 against Pakistan.

The exhibition will begin on 16 March at 6:00pm till 31 March 2016 at EMK Centre.

The exhibition consists of photography, video, sculpture, installation and painting using blood of freedom fighters, reports a press release.

Being inspired by the artist’s relatives who participated in the Liberation war in 1971, he planned to make the works. After seeing a photo of his uncle at his home and hearing his thrilling story of fight and tussled at war against West Pakistan which stimulated him for long time.

One segment of the story is of the freedom fighters who were wounded and lost their limbs during that time. Another segment is on few anecdotes of freedom fighters fought in a village, ‘Danga’ in Narsingdi district — about 2 hours far from the capital Dhaka.

In the works, they describe how they fought, devised and pretended to be Pakistani soldiers during the war. They also reincarnated their memory of 1971 brandishing riffles in 2016. The documents of video and photographs showed their old photo during war, letters wrote to families, diaries of war and loss and gain of war. Firoz Mahmud considered the series of work as ‘pure reality from realistic life in the war’.

Being a kind of expatriate artist for more than a decade, Firoz Mahmud is known for large-scale artworks and long running art projects which include installation, Layapa stencil Painting, NinKi: Urgency of Proximate Drawing, soaked Dream photograph project, objects, and mixed media.Firoz primarily studied from Dhaka University`s Fine Art Institute, did MFA from Tama Art University, Tokyo and PhD from Tokyo University of the Arts. He was a fellow artist at the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.

His works are based on socio-political realities, eventful past, history of politics of his region, colonialisation of the Mughal and British, myth and universal common idea. He works on painting, installation, photograph and drawing.