Rasheed Araeen

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BRENT BIENNIAL: COVID-19 UPDATE

In line with the latest government guidance, Brent Biennial indoor installations and exhibitions will close to the public temporarily from Thu 5 Nov. Including all artworks sited in Brent council and community libraries. Read the full statement here.

‘Zero to Infinity’ an interactive work comprising thirty-six brightly coloured lattice cubes will be presented in a regular flat grid formation next to the children’s area. Made to be handled by children, the public will be encouraged to move and reconfigure the work.

In the spaces usually used to read newspapers and periodicals, ‘Reading Room' will be an installation containing seating and table structures that will house the first one hundred issues of 'Third Text’.

Established by Araeen in Brent in 1987, the seminal journal was at the forefront of debates exploring art, culture and postcolonialism for over two decades.

A curated exhibition in the galleries on the ground floor will display a selection of geometric paintings and drawings that reference and pay homage to Arabic poets and philosophers situated in non-western modernities and thought.

The works highlight the breadth of Araeen’s rich art practice, and the significant contributions he has made to how we view, discuss and position ourselves in relation to art and its histories.

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Rasheed Araeen lives and works in London.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Rasheed Araeen, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Going East Again, Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong (both 2020); Rasheed Araeen: For Oluwale, The Tetley Museum, Leeds, UK (2019); Rasheed Araeen: A Retrospective, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (2018) which later travelled to MAMCO, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland (2018), BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom (2018-19) and Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (2019).