LAISUL HOQUE / লাইসুল হক

Work

(b. 1998, Dhaka, Bangladesh) is an artist based in London. Drawing from his memories and lived experiences, he creates image-based works and installations that explore and decode microhistories and their global impacts. His practice investigates communication, miscommunication, and adopts a reparative reading of the past. By creating spaces to revisit societal norms and traditions, and advocating for the recognition of adverse elements, Hoque imagines how we can act in society.

contact.laisulhoque@gmail.com

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2024  
An Ode to All the Flavours

2024
I don’t Call Enough But I’m Here Now

2023  
The Purpose was to Document the Other Side

2023  
I Wish I Could Tell You Exactly How I Feel





Education

2020 - 2022


2016 - 2020



MA in Contemporary Photography; Practices and
Philosophies, Central Saint Martins, UAL, London

BA in English Literature, North South University, Dhaka


Award


2025  East London Art Prize, Shortlisted
2024  CIRCA Prize, Finalist



Upcoming 


28th Nov 2024An Ode to All the Flavours, a day-long Exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery, London
4th - 8th Dec 2024The Purpose was to Document the Other Side, EXPERIMENTA 2024, Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore



Exhibitions and Screenings 

(* indicates solo)


2024The Purpose was to Document the Other Side, Screened at Piccadilly Lights screen, London
(as part of CIRCA Prize)
2024The Purpose was to Document the Other Side, Screened at Limes Kurfürstendamm screen, Berlin (as part of CIRCA Prize)
2024The Purpose was to Document the Other Side, Screened at Essilor Luxottica screen in Cadorna Square, Milan (as part of CIRCA Prize)
2024An Ode to All the Flavours, Solo Exhibition, Kobi Nazrul Centre, London *

2024The Purpose was to Document the Other Side, Solo Screening, Project Banani 18, Dhaka *
2024The Purpose was to Document the Other Side, Solo Screening, Studio 6/6, Dhaka *
2024The Purpose was to Document the Other Side, Solo Screening, EkshoEk, Dhaka *
2024Shorts: Joyful Lands, Joyful Bodies, Chronic Youth Film Festival, Group Screening, Barbican Centre, London
2024I don’t Call Enough but I’m Here Now, Solo Exhibition, Oitij-jo, London *
2023Bhalo Basha, Group Screening, Toynbee Hall, London
2023ELO MELO Festival, Oitij-jo x Whitechapel Gallery, Group Screening, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2023Molasses Vases, Group Exhibition, hARTslane, London2022Ajker, Group Exhibition, Oitij-jo, London
2022 Degree Show, Central Saint Martins, 1 Granary Square, London


Press/Reviews



2024
The Purpose Was to Document the Other Side on The White Pube by Zarina Muhammad

2024The Purpose Was to Document the Other Side: A Tale of Mediating Generational Gaps on
The Daily Star (BD) by Tasrifa Trisha



Writing


2023Time Is Moving At A Different Pace Back Home: Leaving Behind A Version Of Us, Small World City, Issue 01


Talk/Panel 



2024Joyful Lands, Joyful Bodies, Chronic Youth Film Festival, Barbican Centre



I Wish I Could Tell You Exactly How I Feel, 2022


fluorescent lights x2, heat-sensitive paint

8cm x 8cm x 125cm

11cm x 8cm x 128cm An installation of two lamp holders, each holding a fluorescent light tube painted black with heat-sensitive ink.

The heat from the fluorescent lights causes the paint to disappear—revealing the original tube when turned on, and slowly turning black as they cool down when turned off.

The work is inspired by the artist’s inability to openly communicate with his family.
There will always be a gap in communication and our desire to completely express ourselves to others will never be fulfilled. The emptiness of the white walls on which the lights shine alludes to the absence of expression/image.

With the lights turning on and off, the work explores an abstract form of communication while delving into the paradox: trying to express oneself to the other, while recognizing its futile nature.




Exhibition view of I Wishi I Could Tell You Exactly How I Feel at CSM Degree Show, 2022