Bdbusinessdaily.com – Walk into what you expect to be a conventional painting show, and instead find yourself confronted with stitched textiles, hand-written poems, fabric-bound books, and collages that demand you slow down, turn pages, and sit with someone else’s most private grief. That is the experience waiting at “Untold Story,” a mixed-media exhibition running from 1 to 9 September at Alliance Française de Dhaka. The show is assembled around a core collective of seven artists joined by six guest contributors, each of whom has spent considerable time developing layered, multi-material methods of narrative that flat canvases simply cannot replicate.

What distinguishes this gathering from a typical contemporary art display is not merely the technical ambition of the pieces. It is the degree to which each work functions as an autobiographical confession. The artists thread their own vulnerabilities, family histories, and unresolved emotional wounds directly into the fabric of the objects.…