Munem Wasif’s tryst with the geographies of his homeland and its connecting borders can be traced back to 2014, the year his solo show, his first ever in India, began to shape-up. Never diverting from his documentary-like approach to politically and socially influenced issues the land is perplexed with. It all began with his interest in the idea of borders and maps and their origins, which were eventually shaped into a series of recurring frames titled Land of Undefined Territory.
‘I started working on Land of Undefined Territory in 2014 while I was at a Public Art Project, No Man’s Land, at the border of Bangladesh and India, organised by Britto Arts Trust & Shelter Promotion Council. I started with photographing a small hill and tried to create a series of mundane landscapes where nothing seems to be happening, but one can see traces of industrial and human intervention,’ remarks Munem. His decision to extend this concept of an apparently insignificant land between borders brought the same to Mumbai’s Project 88 art gallery.
