"Executed in black ink, Portrait of a Woman (2023) is based on one of the photographs of anonymous women taken in summer 1941 at Warsaw's Jewish Ghetto by the German soldier Willy Georg. With authorisation from his superiors in the Nazi occupation forces in Poland, Georg entered the Ghetto and shot five rolls of film with his Leica. One was confiscated, together with the camera, by a German patrol that stopped him,"
"Thirty years earlier, Naeem Mohaiemen had witnessed a similar moment with his classmates: the earliest Bangla metal bands, Warfaze and RockStrata, both came out of the same Jesuit missionary school he attended. In 1989 the band members left for the US. Now they still practice in basements but they have college-aged children and the flamboyant guitarist is an Apple software engineer. Where will NekroHowl be in 30 years? Mohaiemen's video Metal Mastan (2025)"
The Soviet Cultural Centre in Dhaka hosted flamenco and yoga classes, chess competitions, and underground heavy, black and death metal concerts. In 2017 the Bangla metal band NekroHowl was scheduled to give a farewell concert there as its singer prepared to study in the US. Earlier Bangla metal bands Warfaze and RockStrata emerged from a Jesuit missionary school and their members emigrated in 1989, later balancing basement practice with family life and technical careers. Naeem Mohaiemen's video Metal Mastan (2025) imagines the future trajectories of young metal musicians. Wilhelm Sasnal's Portrait of a Woman (2023) uses black ink to rework 1941 photographs of anonymous women taken in Warsaw's Jewish Ghetto by German soldier Willy Georg, photographs later published in 1993 by Rafael Felix Scharf.
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