Biography

Asrafun Nahar Ruhin (B.1991 in Bangladesh) is an art practitioner and researcher based in the Hague, Netherlands

Ruhin graduated with distinction from the Master’s in Artistic Research at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Netherlands, partially supported by a Holland Government Scholarship. Earlier, she completed an MFA in Painting at Rabindra Bharati University, India, on a fully funded ICCR Government Scholarship.

Apart from her participation in national and international exhibitions as an artist, she also worked as a curatorial assistant and art therapist on different projects. Her (re)-search explores the intersection of various levels of exploitation embedded in anthropocentric, colonial, and patriarchal agencies, which are the forces of ecological and gender-based struggle. However, performative installations, drawings, text, moving images, sound, and light are the primary media of her expression. She juxtaposes and re-assembles different times, complex substances, contexts, and spaces to create an impression of her personal experiences through provoking the senses. Her research considers that clichés are always products of political agencies. Using her body and clichéd substances (overused/leftover things), considering the sediment of time; she engages with fundamental concerns and asserts a critical stance toward human-centered agency.