The SARPV-Bangladesh and Healthlink Worldwide (UK) in collaboration with the British Council have organised the exhibition to raise awareness about physically-challenged people.

At the exhibition, the visitors will experience life as a person with disability in complete darkness. As visitors move around in the darkroom using mobility aids such as crutches or wheelchair, they will encounter objects and sounds especially designed to recreate typical Dhaka life.

The darkroom will simulate blindness, and by using mobility aids people will be able to play the role of a person with disability. Physically-challenged people will guide the visitors around the exhibition space.

The exhibition will be inaugurated at Dhrupad gallery, House # 36, Road # 5, Block # G, Banani, today 4.00pm. It will remain open from 12.00 noon to 8.00pm daily till December 20.

The exhibition has been designed and built by a group of physically-challenged people, together with a group of artists. Simon Allen, a British artist, has provided technical assistance.

There will also be artworks on display outside the darkroom.

Shahidul Haque, chief executive of SARPV-Bangladesh, said: "In Bangladesh, 10 percent of the population have some form of disability, and they are often ignored and marginalised by the rest of the population. We hope this exhibition will decrease the stigma of disability, and increase people's understanding."

The exhibition is a part of the Communicating for Advocacy project, being run by a British non-governmental organisation, Healthlink Worldwide.