Mong Mong Sho’s exhibition, “Songs of Fishermen” is currently taking place at EMK Center in Dhaka. A painter from Maheshkhali, Cox’s Bazar, Mong works with oil paints and watercolours.
“My paintings are about the lifestyle of the people in my village, which revolve around fishing”, he says. “I try to depict the fishermen’s happiness after a successful expedition and their despair after an unsuccessful one. Some are also dedicated to those who lost their life during these hunts, while others are based on the destruction caused to our homes by boats during the 1991 cyclone. The boats serve as a universal symbol of every event that occurs in my village.”
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