* PROJECT # BV& STVCV || 20070817ﾅ20070927
個人で参加中のプロジェクト
"Flying pixels from Flying man"
(On and off video clip telecasting on local Satellite TV Channel KTV and local bus service in Khulna and Dhaka City, Bangladesh)
このビデオプロジェクトは、ローカルテレビチャンネルで放送され、さらに、地元（クルナシティーとダッカシティー）を走行中のバス内にも展示されます。




www.firozmahmud.wetpaint.com

* "Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2007"


'Two Seasons', Oil Painting on shaped canvas, 2007

'Kheya', Oil layapa painting on canvas, 2007

Kojima Art Plaza (3F)
Taito-Ku, Kojima 2-9-10
Tokyo 111-0056
http://kojimarajio.web.fc2.com/index.htm
http://yaplog.jp/kojimaradio/


* "KOTONOBA"

'Father; other'/ SOS

Sustainable Art Project Exhibition
Kyu-Iwasaki-Tei Teien, Ueno Area, Tokyo
2007.10.20 (Sat)~11.04 (Sun)

The works of Firoz Mahmud give us a strange sensation that a unique fictitious world is linked to an ordinary realistic space. It comes from his own combined method, the collaboration of bricolage technique and painting, but it must be also deeply related to the social environment of Dhaka where Firoz formed himself as an artist.
The elements which compose Firoz’s installations, such as wood-carved sculpture, ready made objects, paintings hang on the wall or video images, are quite fragmental and because in large part they are combined arbitrarily, they do not create stories with particular plots. This is the reason why his installations, as a whole, deeply reflect the culture of his origin, which is filled with diverse energy while containing contradiction and confusion. The use of mass media, such as newspapers and TV news, as a sort of conceptual metaphor, rather verifies that his critical imagination relies deeply on the reality of his life in Bangladesh.
However, what is most prominent is the green color which dominates his entire work. The green is the color of Bangladesh’s national flag and naturally it is a symbol of his cultural identity with ambivalent feelings. Of course Firoz does not bury himself in the place of his origin nor reject it by keeping himself away. He just stares at a chaotic yet fascinating scene with a calm gaze with a little humor and irony. An installation as a site to make fragments with various meanings float. By being an anti-mythology device, Firoz’s works rather open up before us the possibility of richer narratives.