Ohida Khandakar

Work

  • An Archive of Remains

    An expanded cinema installation comprising a short film (24 min), light animation (4 min 30 sec), sound art, and found objects collected from the Netherlands and UAE. Shown at Jan Van Eyck Academie Open Studio, Maastricht, 2025.

  • Where Dust Remembers

    Video installation, 2025. A short film (10 min) about Khandakar Selim’s collection and the demolition of his mud house. Shown at Jan Van Eyck Academie Open Studio, Maastricht, with an interactive station inviting visitors to write letters to the future community museum in Kelepara village, India.

  • A Thousand Thunders

    Solo exhibition at Project 88 Mumbai, 2024. Watercolour paintings, drawings, and the short film A Collision in the Wind (15 min) — exploring grief, collective trauma, and the resilience of Muslim women in contemporary India.

  • The Sky in the house

    Virtual reality film (ongoing). A 360° VR reconstruction of Khandakar Selim’s Kelepara mud house compound — preserving the demolished space as an interactive archive. Part of the long-term Museum on the Moon research project.

  • Dream Your Museum

    Film and installation, Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art 2022. Drawing on Khandakar Selim’s 47-year collecting practice — approximately 12,000 objects accumulated in his rural home — the work proposes a museum built from the margins: portable, nonlinear, and defiant of institutional authority.

  • The Golden Daughter

    Photo colour and gold foil leaf on paper, 12 × 17 inches each, 2021. A triptych constructing a feminist ‘Herstory’ that subverts phallocentric logic — using gold leaf to illuminate the hidden spaces between masculinity and femininity.

  • The Last Dream I Saw

    Short experimental film, 6 min 12 sec, 2021. Painting, drawing, and video — an exploration of the freedom of women’s dreams and desires, and the socio-cultural impact of gender discrimination in the Indian subcontinent.

  • I Was Still Silent

    Short experimental film, 3 min 22 sec, 2020. Video, painting, drawing and VFX. Made during the COVID-19 lockdown, addressing the shadow pandemic of domestic violence against women.

  • Museum on the Moon

    Feature documentary film, approx. 90 minutes (ongoing). An examination of Khandakar Selim’s 52-year collecting practice as a decolonial act of archiving — and a meditation on who is permitted to dream of building a museum.

  • Ungraceful Melody

    Video art, 7 min 18 sec, 2019. Video, photograph, chroma and VFX. A juxtaposition of women’s spaces exploring the dynamics of oppression and assertion — shown at Serendipity Art Festival, Panjim, Goa, 2019.