February 2025
At least twice a year, the student of the Jewellery- Linking Bodies department go for a studio visit. This semester, the department have visited Maksud Ali Mondal’s studios at De Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten
Maksud’s practice includes facilitating experiential understanding of organisms in a durational, built microcosm, using sculpture, painting, installation, and photography including temperature, humidity, moisture, dampness, and light. He is interested in generating reflections on how we understand ourselves in relation to each other, including other species, organisms, and civilizations as well as our place in the transforming environment. His work deals with microbial contamination as a conversational expression, based on the observation of growth, transformations, and decomposition of organic matter by bacteria, fungi, plants, microbial creatures, fermentation, decomposition, oxidation, and rotting, as well as with the organic, man-made, found objects and everyday, discarded materials.
For more information visit his website: https://www.maksudalimondal.com/