Tanvir Taolad

Dhaka-based artist Tanvir Taolad was born in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, in 1987. He studied fine arts at Narayanganj Fine Art Academy and photography at Pathshala South Asian Media Institute.

Influenced by anything and everything, his work explores the inner reality, the unconscious, to see what lies beyond the physical world. He depicts raw, untraditional forms of vulnerability based on fantasy, nightmares, hallucinations and daydreams. Mixing the real with the artificial, Taolad confounds the viewer and challenges perceptual conventions to open up a spiritual state.

Taolad and Eldagsen have been working together since 2017. They showed their joint work at the Indian Photo Festival Hyderabad and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale.