Munem Wasif‘s photography and film investigates conceptions of ‘documents’ and ‘archives’ and their corresponding influence on politically and geographically complex issues. Expressionistic in style and long term in method, Wasif often experiments beyond tradition, testing the possibilities of fiction through a familiar documentary language.
Solo exhibitions
2017 Jomin o Joban, Project 88, Mumbai (IN).
2016 Land of Undefined Territories, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka.
2015 In God We Trust, 247 Gallery, Paris.
2012 Salt Water Tears, Musée du sel, La Réunion (FR).
2010 Salt Water Tears, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam (NL).
2009 Salt Water Tears, Prix Pictet, Mall Gallery, London.
Group exhibitions
2019 Seeds Shall Set Us Free II, Cosmopolis #2: Rethinking the Human, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Spring Song, Homelands: Art from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, Kettle Yard, Cambridge (UK).
Machine Matters, Leaving the Echo Chamber, Sharjah Biennial 14, Sharjah (AE).
Land of Undefined Territories, Undefined Territories. Perspectives on Colonial Legacies, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona (ES).
2018 Kheyal, 9th Asia Pacific Triennale of contemporary art, Qagoma, Brisbane (AU).
Machine Matter, A beast, a god, and a line, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw.
Seeds Shall Set Us free, Bearing Points, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka.
2017 Land of Undefined Territories, Prix Pictet Space, V&A Museum, London.
2016 Land of Undefined Territories, The Eighth Climate (What does art do?), Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (KR).
Land of Undefined Territories,
An atlas of mirrors, Singapore Biennale, Singapore.
2016 In God We Trust, You Cannot Cross the Sea Merely by Staring at the Waves, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna.
Publications
Munem Wasif,
Homelands: Art from Bangladesh, India & Pakistan, Devika Singh, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge 2020.
Making New Time, Omer Kholeif, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah 2019.
Belonging, with Clémentine de la Féronnière, Paris 2013.
Larmes salées, Images Plurielles, Marseille 2011.
Kamra 1 & 2, with Tanzim Wahab, Kamra, Dhaka 2011 - 2013.
www.munemwasif.com