Searching Roots An Artists Tale Final Pitch.mp4

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“My village was in the middle of a green hill and the primary school was far away from it. Education was rare for indigenous people in those times. I was surprised to see beautiful black & white drawings in textbooks. On my asking, a teacher explained how these are first drawn by an Artist and then printed on books by a process. That day, I had decided to become an Artist by any how”.

This is the beginning story of Joydeb Roaja, almost 40 years ago. How an oppressed indigenous boy struggled to become a mainstream artist, where everything was different than his own identity. Joydeb Roaja has been living in Chittagong City for more than 30 years. He came from a remote village of Tripura Clan at Khagrachori district of Chittagong Hill Tract, Bangladesh. He is now 47 and has a family of two children and an artist wife. After completing the MFA in University of Chittagong, Joydeb is determined to live on as an independent artist. His journey is always hard and surviving but innocently festive.

Once started with regular art events by joining national and global art exhibitions, Joydeb recalled the historical continuity of injustice to and sufferings of hill tract people in his art works. Their identity and existence were overlooked in the course of progress, and their habitats and natural balance had been ravaged in the name of area control, tourism, development and reservation of forests. Till present days, Joydeb realizes his alienation in urban life. According to him ‘it is like renting a home’ and not rooted somewhere he belongs to.

Joydeb participated in many art exhibitions around the world and met prominent artists with their visionary approaches. He then changed his course and started a new journey to find the roots of his identity and destination of human civilization. He gradually develops his own style and language to express in search of his spirit and faith in Art, is deeply rooted in and evolved from Nature only, the world of trees, river, stream and mostly mother earth and transforms his creative world to connect and represent them. He evolves his art and craft to amplify his own identity with homegrown sensibilities and reality. His performing arts commemorates his ethnic origin and the organic world he has conversed with since his childhood. Joydeb’s approach towards art is humble, serene and true to his origin. His spontaneous act propagates the spirit of non-violence even though he is convinced that nature and his people are truly victimized by the so-called politics of progress.

The world now possibly hears the voice of Chittagong tribes through memories, struggles and deeper connections of nature. A story of the transformative homecoming of a tribal artist through a creative immersion, to his own landscape; a journey back to the root that takes a stance from within.

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