Reetu Sattar is a performance-based artist and filmmaker based in Dhaka. Her practice questions human perception and imperceptible nature by re-examining history and creating knowledge. In constant dialogue with its immediate surroundings, her work engages with the poetics of environments and explores inner urges for change, perception, (re)relation to the body and matter.
The artist has presented her work at the Istanbul Biennial (2022), the British Textile Biennial (2021), the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2023), the Liverpool Biennial (2018) and the Dhaka Art Summit. She has also shown at the British Film Institute, London; Alserkal Avenue, Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai; Artspace, Sydney; the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and NTU CCA Singapore. Her performances have been staged internationally at venues in the United Kingdom, Japan, Denmark, Thailand and Goa.