The MMPI project is a five-years project (2017 – 2022) at Loughborough University and funded by the Leverhulme Trust, which explores how the 1947 Partition of British India and wider processes of decolonisation are remembered by people of South Asian heritage in the UK.
On the anniversary of 50 years of Bangladesh in 2021, our project will launch part 1 of the online exhibition “50 years of Bangladesh through 50 objects”, a collection of everyday items and family heirlooms that hold memories of Bangladesh 1971 – 2021. These are photographs of objects that have been donated by research participants and will be released on our website throughout 2021, beginning on 26th March 2021.
The exhibition has been assembled by our Researcher and Artist Saif Osmani.
MMPI works in partnership with Tower Hamlets Council.
Did you inherit an object that tells a story about a historic moment of Bangladesh?
We would like to photograph everyday items and family heirlooms that hold memories about the history of Bangladesh from 1971-2021. The project wants to create an online collection of objects interpreted into artworks using collage – photograph, text and hand drawing.
The MMPI project investigates memories of the 1947 Partition of India and the end of Empire in South Asia and their relevance in everyday life. We are specifically interested in memories of the 1947 Partition of British India, the 1971 Liberation war in Bangladesh, and experiences of migration.
Interested participants are asked to contact Artist/ Researcher Saif Osmani at s.osmani@lboro.ac.uk or to call 07915 234 404.
