portrait Credit: Gabriel Barreto Ashfika Rahman
Ashfika Rahman is a Bangladesh-based visual artist whose practice is shaped by a deep social consciousness, influenced by her mother’s career as a social worker. She develops powerful alternative archives that centre communities whose histories are often erased or excluded from dominant narratives. Drawing on mythological, spiritual and folk traditions, she reinterprets these inherited forms within contemporary socio-political contexts. Working across various mediums, Rahman approaches image-making as a layered, research-driven process, documenting lived experiences of violence, displacement, cultural colonisation and resistance. Her work transforms documentation into a space of memory, testimony and critical reflection.
Alongside her artistic practice, she is committed to education and community engagement, including founding an alternative boat school in one of Bangladesh’s largest wetland regions.
Most recently, her work is featured in Framer Framed’s exhibition Wild Waters: Dams and And Deltas After Modernity (2026) on the inextricable links between water, colonial expansion and territorial exploitation.
Exposities
Tentoonstelling: Wild Waters
Deze tentoonstelling samengesteld door Àngels Miralda onderzoekt water als iets dat onmisbaar is voor het leven, maar ook als een middel waarmee macht wordt uitgeoefend over mens, land en natuur.
Agenda
Leven met de Delta: mythe, herinnering en kennis over water
Een programma dat vanuit verschillende geografische invalshoeken kijkt naar het leven van gemeenschappen die aan het water leven