Worn: Monica Jahan Bose's "Storytelling with Saris"
By Miryam Haarlammert
Installation view of "Layer by Layer: Storytelling with Saris" (2013) at Brentwood Arts Exchange, Maryland, 2013. Courtesy Brentwood Arts Exchange, Maryland.
At the Brentwood Arts Exchange at the Gateway Arts Center in Brentwood, Maryland—less than a mile from the United State’s capital—the sounds of Katakhali, a small community on Barobaishdia Island in Southwestern Bangladesh, can be heard. Following the sounds, and turning a corner, one is led to Bangladeshi-American artist-activist, Monica Jahan Bose’s exhibition “Layer By Layer: Storytelling with Saris,” which is part of an ongoing conversation about literacy and eco-empowerment for the women of her home village of Katakhali.
