LOCATION: Landskrona Konsthall. MAP. Included in festival ticket
In London 2018, when the architect and artist Sofia Karim received the news that her beloved uncle, the photo journalist Shahidul Alam, had been imprisoned and beaten in her native Bangladesh, merely for questioning the regime, her world fell apart. What could she do? As part of the global Free Shahidul campaign she came up with the idea of creating samosa packets, to spread the message about her uncle’s case and the many other political prisoners.
In 2019 mass protests broke out in India. Working with fellow activists, she planned a protest action at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, in solidarity with Shaheen Bagh – the large and historically important resistance movement led by Muslim women against the Indian government’s Citizenship Amendment Act. The project was named Turbine Bagh and samosa packets became the medium of protest art.
Sofia Karim is based in London. Her work has been exhibited at leading museums and galleries, among them the Victoria & Albert Museum. Last year she was nominated for the Jameel Prize: Poetry to Politics, the world’s leading award for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition.
TURBINE BAGH ARTISTS & CONTRIBUTORS:
Abhimanyu Roy
Abul Kalam
Aftab Pathan
Alama Uddin
Ali Monis Naqvi
Amrit Wilson
Anish Kapoor
Anthony Anaxagorou
Anushka Mahapatra
Ashish Kumar Kataria
Archan Basu
Ayan Ali
Bob and Roberta Smith
Chamindra de Silva
Dalia Chakma
Deb Choudhuri
D.e.e.m.U.K
Devashish Gaur
Dipesh Pandya
Farhan Ather
Farhin Afza
Fawzia Khan
Finola Inger
Firdosh Ali
Gary Lovering
Hamama Tul Bushra
Hamja Ahsan
Harsha Durigadda
Harsha Vadlamani
Haseeb Ullah Zafar
Ishan Tankha
Javed Sultan
Jo Hemmant
John Trotter
Julie Waranch Fleschman
Karim Sanderson
Karthika Nair
Katy Craddock
Kshiraja Krishnan
Kulsoom Khan
Leo Vuppuluri
Lipeng Law
Lokesh Khodke
Lylah Sanderson
Madpaule’
Maheen Hamid
Mahmood Jamal
Manga Inji
Manika Garg
Manish Harijan
Marcelo Brodsky
Mayank Makhija
Mayssa Kanaan
Mazduda Hassan
Megha Joshi
Mehjabin Biva
Michael Rosas Cobian
Mir Suhail
Nausheen Khan
Nepal Picture Library
Nilik Khimani
Oliver Weeks
Ourdirtyunderwear
Palak Sharma
Paola Estrella
Payoshni Mitra
Parismita Singh
Polok Monorom
Praveen Kolluguri
Priyanka Basu
Rachela Abbate
Rachel Spence
Rahnuma Ahmed
Rajdeep Atha
Ritam Talukdar
Ritankar Mazumder
Robert Gerhardt
Rohit Saha
Ronny Sen
Rubina Singh
Ruth Padel
Saba Hasan & Nabiya Khan
Sadie Bridger
Salil Tripathi
Salma Hasan Ali
Samia Khalid
Sangeetha Kowshik
Sanitary Panels
Satwinder Sehmi
Sba Shaikh
Shahidul Alam
Shah Tazrian Ashrafi
Shaurya Pujari
Shaista Chisty
Shiromi Pinto
Shuchi Kapoor
Siddhesh Gautam
Smish Designs
Snehasish Bodhak
Sofia Karim
Sophia Moffa
Sowsan Atabani
Srinivas Kuruganti
Subinay Debnath
Subi Shah
Sunara Begum
Syeda Begum
Tavish Gunasena
TrappedinGeopolitics
Usraat Fahmidah
Uttam Ghosh
Uzma Mohsin
Vijay Prashad
Yash Wadhwa
Yasmyn Clementine
Younus Nomani
Zeba Imtiaz
Zehra Dogan
Zoya Nadeem
+ many more