Birmingham Museums Showcases Bangladeshi Artist Mustafa Zaman in Outdoor Exhibition
Lost Memory Eternalised
Birmingham’s Chamberlain Square from 20 October 2021

Artworks that were developed from a chance encounter when a Bangladeshi artist discovered ants in his honey will be on display in a new outdoor exhibition in Birmingham’s Chamberlain Square from 20 October.
Lost Memory Eternalised, by the Bangladeshi artist Mustafa Zaman, features work created from found images which are then overlayed with honey to create haunting visuals that are an artistic representation of the social and political history in Bangladesh.
In Lost Memory Eternalised, Zaman’s haunting conceptual works are accompanied by short essays that explore his poetic views on the wide themes his work explores. The selected images are from a variety of books such as history and yoga. Honey oozes, blood-like across the depictions of human history, while ants are drowned in the torrent.
Mustafa Zaman is a Bangladeshi artist and writer born in 1968. He is a significant part of the growing contemporary art world in Dhaka and is editor of Depart, a Bangladeshi art magazine. The themes of his work are universally relevant but speak of the history of Bangladesh.
Lost Memory Eternalised coincides with the 50^th anniversary of Bangladesh and is a collaboration between Birmingham Museums Trust and the Dhaka-based Bengal Foundation. It is part of a shared artistic programme that marks the anniversary of Bangladesh’s independence, funded by a grant from the British Council’s ‘Digital Collaboration Fund’.