Ines Doujak
4th Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh
4 – 10 February 2018
The Dhaka Art Summit, founded in 2012 by the Samdani Art Foundation, is an international, non-commercial research and exhibition platform for art and architecture related to South Asia. For the 4th Dhaka Art Summit in 2018, the guest curator of which was Cosmin Costinas, invited Austrian artist Ines Doujak to participate in the exhibition section entitled A Beast, a God and a Line. In collaboration with Phileas, Doujak was commissioned to produce an extension of her long-term project Loomshuttles / Warpaths that explored the links between textiles, fashion, colonialism, violence and the conditions of globalised production. Previously developed designs and prints were reused to create a work locally in Dhaka, using local materials and resources.
Ines Doujak (born 1959 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria) is an artist whose artistic practice spans across various fields, including that of research and literature. She teaches visual culture and material aesthetics and focuses, among other things, on queer-feminists studies, anti-racism and post-colonial studies. Doujak lives and works in London and Vienna. Among other venues, she has had solo exhibitions at Salzburger Kunstverein, Secession, Vienna.
