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Featuring Puer Deorum & Jannat Husssain

In this first issue, I speak with two British-Bangladeshi artists, Puer Deorum and Jannat Hussain. I met Puer in 2022 when we used to work together, and Jannat in 2024, through Puer. The two of them had been friends for a while, and at the time, they had also been working towards a duo exhibition titled heavy traces, light trails that ran at Filet Space in London, in November 2024.

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Puer Deorum is an interdisciplinary artist whose work balances negotiations between weight and ephemerality, touching upon the omnipresent scope of mortality. Drawing out from their cultural context, and referencing psycho/socio political geographies, they question homogenous ideas around the experience of time, see-sawing between monochronic (linear) and polychronic (fluid) methods. Weaving incantations of love and encapsulating embodied feelings, they tease temporalities through endurance and duration, amplifying (inter)personal experiences through dream sequences and interpretive actions. Selected sharings of their art include: Whitechapel Gallery (London), Serendipity Arts Festival (Goa), Les Urbaines (Lausanne), Hugo Boss (London), and Instrument Inventors (The Hague). Solo exhibitions: Filet Gallery (London), Quench Gallery (Margate). Selected awards: Set Studio Prize, and Arts Council DYCP Grant. They curated and produced ELO MELO, a multi-media festival in London across Whitechapel Gallery and Toynbee Hall, with Oitij-jo Collective. Notable talks and panel discussions include Tate Modern, and Glastonbury Festival.

Jannat Hussain is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and creative facilitator with an MA and BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins. Her practice navigates the space between introspective realities and outward expression, where close observation of the self and interpersonal dynamics translates into highly emotive responses. Her work is experiential, grounded in the erudition of feeling, and involves extrapolating sentimental moments from her life that are worthy of rendering, mapping her emotional landscape. Jannat’s current focus lies in using the material and cultural attributes of sculpture and performance art to explore various forms of intimacy.She is currently the Creative Programme Coordinator at Arts Network, an arts and mental health charity. In addition, she holds a position on the Artist Council for a-n The Artist Information Company. Her work has been exhibited at Tate Britain, the V&A, The Albany Theatre, Cooke Latham Gallery, among others in both gallery and public settings.








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