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Current Exhibitions

Juan Manuel Castro Prieto - Don Quijote landscapes
Théâtre Liberté (FRANCE)
From 2013-04-02 to 2013-05-31

Claudine Doury - Passage
Forum Meyrin (SWITZERLAND)
From 2013-04-13 to 2013-06-13

Steeve Iuncker - Passage
Forum Meyrin (SWITZERLAND)
From 2013-04-13 to 2013-06-13

Jean-Luc Chapin - La Table des chiens
Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (FRANCE)
From 2013-04-23 to 2013-09-29

Olivier Mirguet - SUPERVISION L.A.
LACEN / Project (U.S.A.)
From 2013-05-03 to 2013-05-25

Agnès Propeck - Mon île de Montmajour
Abbaye de Montmajour (FRANCE)
From 2013-05-05 to 2013-11-03

Ian Teh - Documentary Photography Project - Traces
Open Society Institute (U.S.A.)
From 2013-05-07 to 2013-12-13

Cédric Gerbehaye - Sète#13
Festival ImageSingulières (FRANCE)
From 2013-05-08 to 2013-05-26

Roger Ballen - Outland
Festival ImageSingulières (FRANCE)
From 2013-05-08 to 2013-05-26

Claire Martin - Dropouts
Festival ImageSingulières (FRANCE)
From 2013-05-08 to 2013-05-26

Hugues de Wurstemberger - Saharans
Festival ImageSingulières (FRANCE)
From 2013-05-08 to 2013-05-26

Ad Van Denderen - So blue, so blue. Edges of the mediterranean.
Festival ImageSingulières (FRANCE)
From 2013-05-08 to 2013-05-26

Vanessa Winship - She dances on Jackson
Fondation Henri Cartier Bresson (FRANCE)
From 2013-05-15 to 2013-07-28

Stanislas Guigui - l'Olympique de Marseille
Pavillon M (FRANCE)
From 2013-05-18 to 2013-05-26

Pierre-Olivier Deschamps - Residency
Culture Espérance Roquette (FRANCE)
From 2013-05-24 to 2013-06-03

Albert & Verzone - Seeuropeans
Bercy Village (FRANCE)
From 2013-05-24 to 2013-09-15

Roger Ballen - Roger Ballen
Galerie VU (FRANCE)
From 2013-05-24 to 2013-07-06

Denis Dailleux - The Memory of a revolution
Festival Printemps au Proche-Orient (FRANCE)
From 2013-05-24 to 2013-06-15

Denis Darzacq - Gravity language
Dansmuseet (SWEDEN)
From 2013-05-24 to 2013-09-08

Stanislas Guigui - Atras del Muro & Cuchillo Bohemio
Galerie Christopher Gerber (SWITZERLAND)
From 2013-05-30 to 2013-06-29

Next exhibitions

Gilles Favier - Ceux de là-bas.
Foire internationale de la Photo - Grange aux Fraises (FRANCE)
From 2013-06-01 to 2013-06-02

Marcelo Buainain - OMAME
Foire internationale de la Photo - Centre culturel Ratel (FRANCE)
From 2013-06-01 to 2013-06-02

Vanessa Winship - Sweet Nothings
Festival Portrait(s) - Centre Culturel Valery-Larbaud (FRANCE)
From 2013-06-14 to 2013-09-01

Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt - DOUX-AMER
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie (FRANCE)
From 2013-07-01 to 2013-09-22

The blood splinter of jute

Munem Wasif
Chobi Mela V
56 Shakhari Bazar,
(BANGLADESH)


From 2009-02-03 to 2009-02-12


• 11.00 to 20.00

Once upon a time, jute was the life-giving force in Bangladeshi agriculture. But the radiant history of this golden fibre has been wiped out brutally from the lives of millions of people. A total of 3645 varieties of jute including Tossa, Bagi, Deshi Naillya and others are found in this country; an impressive possession of natural resources for a small country like ours. The history of exporting jute from this region is quite an ancient one. Centring on Dundee of Scotland, jute industries of this Bengal region flourished. There were 77 jute mills in the country in Pakistan period. But, at present, the government does not seem interested any more to keep any. In August 1996, World Bank put pressure on the government to close 5 jute mills, shrink one and close another 2,700 handlooms. On June 30, 2002, the largest Jute Mill of the World, Adamji Jute Mill was violently attacked and closed for good. In the backdrop of continuous closing of jute mills one after another, the labourers of Khulna finally stood on their feet again in 2007. In the meantime, regular firing of the labourers in several state-run jute mills such as Star, Crescent, Platinum, Aleem, and Eastern were continuing. Lack of income, employment, proper food and exploitation by the government causes death of thousands of jute mill workers. Standing on the corpses of the labourers, the vicious government also declares closing of numerous jute mills in Khulna, Narshingdi, Demra, Narayanganj, Ghorashal and Chittagong. This is indeed the bloodstained story of the golden fibre of Bangladesh. But the crimson-gold stains of blood will not give up either. We carry on the anguish for the golden fibre in our blood from generation to generation, through deaths to life …

Exhibitions catalog

Monographic exhibitions

Albert & Verzone
Bacigalupo Martina
Ballen Roger
Berruti Massimo
Boudjelal Bruno
Chapin Jean-Luc
Chivet Sophie
Dailleux Denis
Delpoux Dominique
Descamps Bernard
Deschamps Pierre-Olivier
Desprez Bertrand
Dewever-Plana Miquel
Doan na Champassak Tiane
Doury Claudine
Duroy Stéphane
Eshraghi Isabelle
Favier Gilles
Flore Maia
Fontaine François
Gerbehaye Cédric
Gomez Rovira Rodrigo
Goussard Christophe
Grignet Brigitte
Guigui Stanislas
Hingley Liz
Hock Marin
Hopkins Rip
Huguier Françoise
Hyytiäinen Arja
Iuncker Steeve
Kollar Martin
Lecloux Frédéric
Lutz Christian
Mirguet Olivier
Navia José Manuel
Nejmi Malik
Pauquet Claude
Picard Fabrice
Picard Serge
Pierrot Emmanuel
Propeck Agnès
Rearick Anne
Rondeau Gérard
Ross Henryk
Sauveur David
Sutkus Antanas
Taberna Patrick
Teh Ian
Ten Hoopen Pieter
Tillim Guy
Tshi
Turine Gaël
Van Denderen Ad
Vanden Eeckhoudt Michel
Wasif Munem
Winship Vanessa
Yankang Yang
Zuili Guillaume

Collective Exhibitions

  • Vu' by Robert Delpire
  • 80+80, photo_graphic design
  • Full Size Nature
  • VU' in Paris
  • European Works

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