Tribandhan: Three Worlds, One Vision

**Curated by Fareha Zeba, Tribandhan opened on 12 June 2026 at La Galerie, Alliance Française de Dhaka, and continues until 17 June 2026.**

Internationally acclaimed artist Suresh K. Nair of Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi has called it a “visual feast of contemporary Bangladeshi society,” and indeed, it is a luminous journey into three distinct yet interconnected realms.

Niharika Awhona Barsaat, pursuing her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Varanasi, finds in the city’s ancient rhythms a mirror to her native Dhaka.

Her canvases, exhibited at Kochi Biennale, Shilpakala Academy, and KA Art Gallery, weave feminine energy into nature’s metaphors. Awards and honors affirm her distinctive voice, yet it is her heartfelt narratives that linger like prayers in color. Through translucent layers of acrylic and watercolor, she invokes healing: birds, trees, and women entwine as living metaphors. In her vision, a woman becomes a tree, a bird becomes a prayer, and nature itself becomes a sanctuary.

Surovi Akter’s devotion to portraiture turns simplicity into revelation. With brown paper, pen, pencil, and charcoal, she explores the human spirit—where realism meets surrealism, and intimacy itself becomes art.

Her red ballpoint pen transforms the human eye into a cosmos. Each gaze becomes a spiritual bridge, sharpened by ink yet softened by colored pencil, pulsing with psychological depth. In her hands, drawing is no longer a technique but prayer.

Fariaz Emran’s art carries the restless pulse of Dhaka into luminous reflection.

Shaped by his years at Jahangirnagar University and now immersed in the mural traditions of Banaras Hindu University, he expands his language through experimental printmaking. His works, celebrated at Shilpakala Academy, Alliance Française de Dhaka, Kochi Biennale, and Bharat Kala Bhawan, bear recognition across Bangladesh and India—marking him as a voice of restless exploration.

From the layered washes of his watercolors, rickshaw pullers and anonymous figures emerge, carrying untold stories in fleeting gestures. Urban chaos dissolves into meditations on identity and awareness, where the street itself becomes a temple of reflection.

THEY INVITE US INTO THREE REALMS—THE HUMAN FACE, THE LIVING CITY AND THE ETERNAL NATURAL WORLD—REMINDING US THAT ART IS NOT ONLY SEEN BUT FELT, NOT ONLY CREATED BUT CONNECTED.

Together, these three voices weave Tribandhan—a triad of sensibilities converging into one poetic dialogue.

Images: Fariaz Emran, Surovi Akter & Niharika Awhona Barsaat