Anura Krishantha's first theme is love and memory and the second is a stolen wreath. Anura said that in the first case he has two chairs and a table with different designs and patterns that he saw around himself in Dhaka. There is a tiger skin replica, a crown, rickshaw designs. He said that he associates happiness with a home and so he has brought in furniture from a household. "While I've enjoyed myself very much here, I've missed my home which I've tried to depict in the chair and the table. I've tried to combine the colours that I've found here with those found back in Sri Lanka. There was someone I used to know with whom I spoke over this table and things I used to see. When I look at these things I recall the people who went with them."

Malak Helmy said, "I took elements from movie posters, designs found in the back of rickshaws and the idealistic heavenly village scenes found at the back of trucks, as they transport things from city to city. I've put them together to make my own movie posters.

"These images are new to me and yet recall the movie posters in Egypt. I see similarities in the culture that is here and what we have in Cairo. In my narrative iconography you can read the simplistic roles that have been dramatised.

"I've put myself in the roles. In the first is a woman with a PhD. There is then the president, his wife and her family. This is a romantic notion of a happy family under the mother's wing. In the dancing figure in The age of corruption one gets the other extreme. I have played with the three simplistic roles women are supposed to play. You see me playing the roles, responding to what I've seen around me, here, at the same time. Narrative iconography is a story told to you in a single poster. It is usually used in primitive forms of art and is sometimes also used to get a message across loud and clear. These images are often used as a form of propaganda in ads and movies. I've used my simplified literal images to tell a story of idealised desires as a woman. I'm poking fun. I'm basically having fun with the three roles. I've been here for about four weeks and I've found everything very visually stimulating."

Imran Hossain Piplu from Bangladesh said, "I've made a few toys with feathers, paper and wheels. The toys work with remote control. They stand for people who appear nice and friendly but who have other layers of evil qualities in them. These people put out a nice face to beguile society."

The results of the residency programme were presented at the exhibition and it was accompanied by photographs of more experimental work that the three had done earlier in Chittagong.