Exhibition walk-through and talk by Alina Khakoo

Find out more about the work of Rasheed Araeen, and his place in British visual culture, with Cambridge PhD student Alina Khakoo. Alina will talk visitors through the significance of the works on display, drawing on her own research into South Asian diasporic art in British culture.

About the exhibition:
Rasheed Araeen: A British Story condenses Araeen’s artistic career into a representative selection of work across painting, collage, sculpture, and participatory installations. Works include Zero to Infinity, and his ‘Reading Room’ installation, which will offer visitors the opportunity to engage with the artist’s own writings, many of which were first published in the journal Third Text, which he founded in 1987. The show emphasizes the indivisibility of Araeen’s formal artistic language from his post-colonial political awareness and highlights his imaginative artistic responses to British political and cultural life over the last fifty years.

Host or Publisher The Heong Gallery at Downing College