Farida Yesmin

Farida Yesmin, (fka Kajoli Ilojak) was born and grew up in Bangladesh. She studied Fine Arts at Dhaka University (Bangladesh, 1998) and at Visva-Bharati University (West Bengal, India, 2003), from which she holds a Masters’ degree. In her ever-evolving artistic practice, she experiments with different media (from photography and drawing to live performance), exploring issues of gender, body politics and cross-cultural identity through a feminist lens. Through her art, she engages with the cultural expectations and ideological restrictions that she confronts as a woman, as an artist and as a refugee. The artist negotiates language barriers whilst staging her ‘otherness’ using her body, voice, painting and gestural mark-making as means of communication.