Artists' Rooms: Kamruzzaman Shadhin

Artists' Rooms: Kamruzzaman Shadhin is a one-room solo presentation by the artist Kamruzzaman Shadhin in Gallery 10 at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai. It runs from 30 March to 1 November 2026.

The room restages a single large-scale textile work, The River Remembers (2023), made of jute, thread, brass and copper. The centre writes that "handcrafted threads map the colour of the water of the Teesta and the Brahmaputra, two rivers flowing through the Bengal delta." Engraved brass discs carry the memories and migration stories of two women in the artist's life. They are his mother and Johura Begum, a traditional jute weaver in his village, both affected by the 1947 partition of Bengal.

The work was commissioned by the Diriyah Biennale Foundation, with additional support from the Samdani Art Foundation. It is in the Art Jameel Collection.

Shadhin was born in 1974 and lives and works in Dhaka and Thakurgaon, Bangladesh. His participatory practice spans installation, performance, video and public art, and deals with migration, environment and history. He founded the Gidree Bawlee Foundation of Arts, a social practice and community art organisation based in the village of Balia in Thakurgaon.

Artists' Rooms is a series of solo exhibitions drawn largely from the Art Jameel Collection. The series has a particular focus on practitioners from West Asia and South Asia.