https://osmanstudio.com Osman Yousefzada Tue, 06 Jun 2023 21:27:30 +0000 https://osmanstudio.com en https://osmanstudio.com/index Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:46:46 +0000 Osman Yousefzada https://osmanstudio.com/index https://osmanstudio.com/Charpai-Sculpture Tue, 06 Jun 2023 10:29:09 +0000 Osman Yousefzada https://osmanstudio.com/Charpai-Sculpture Charpai Sculpture2023 Installation, Goodman Gallery, London Yousefzada’s piece Charpai Sculpture, explores the traditional and contemporary techniques of Pakistani and European workshops. The work takes the charpai, a daybed typically found across South Asia, and reimagines it utilising salvaged and handmade elements. Repurposed colonial doors and woven fabric sourced from waste materials on factory floors combine in this work. The door, which for the artist stood as gates in their original context, are shifted on their axis from vertical to horizontal transforming into a component of the humble charpai bed - a more communal architecture. <img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a219fcecb7dd8bcf823bb012787e7f8d58ce6c09cb91f8b6299df56a60c35bb3/Osman-Yousefzada-Charpai-Sculpture-1.jpg" data-mid="181159621" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a219fcecb7dd8bcf823bb012787e7f8d58ce6c09cb91f8b6299df56a60c35bb3/Osman-Yousefzada-Charpai-Sculpture-1.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10ede6c31e1cb96c297db05911023a6d5c414bacca431ed44bd9b804de96ed2a/-Osman-Yousefzada-Charpai-Sculpture-6.jpg" data-mid="181160665" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/10ede6c31e1cb96c297db05911023a6d5c414bacca431ed44bd9b804de96ed2a/-Osman-Yousefzada-Charpai-Sculpture-6.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d7d48047d944859bc94792c5805f3b3ce1e57e14da162c60580514b0762d2ea/Osman-Yousefzada-Charpai-Sculpture.jpg" data-mid="181160658" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d7d48047d944859bc94792c5805f3b3ce1e57e14da162c60580514b0762d2ea/Osman-Yousefzada-Charpai-Sculpture.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8bb300559f0bfd6d928ea8b4f521b681decd5216af199cf032b13d26f93efff1/Osman-Yousefzada-Charpai-Sculpture-2.jpg" data-mid="181159622" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8bb300559f0bfd6d928ea8b4f521b681decd5216af199cf032b13d26f93efff1/Osman-Yousefzada-Charpai-Sculpture-2.jpg" /> <img width="2667" height="4000" width_o="2667" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/908519619980b4c1b1603210aca280cb966ae010d0d12dc76c870d23967e3e68/-Osman-Yousefzada-Charpai-Sculpture-5.jpg" data-mid="181160675" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/908519619980b4c1b1603210aca280cb966ae010d0d12dc76c870d23967e3e68/-Osman-Yousefzada-Charpai-Sculpture-5.jpg" /> <img width="2667" height="4000" width_o="2667" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/074d86cbae081c387175fee1d812357e17a18a2b8bc5469ca34fccade80f76c6/-Osman-Yousefzada-Charpai-Sculpture-7.jpg" data-mid="181160676" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/074d86cbae081c387175fee1d812357e17a18a2b8bc5469ca34fccade80f76c6/-Osman-Yousefzada-Charpai-Sculpture-7.jpg" /> ︎︎︎Previous Next︎︎︎ https://osmanstudio.com/Ventilator Tue, 06 Jun 2023 20:48:37 +0000 Osman Yousefzada https://osmanstudio.com/Ventilator Ventilator2023 Installation,&nbsp; Royal College of Art, London <img width="7983" height="5325" width_o="7983" height_o="5325" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/58e766e06bf163fdb56d72914db4296eb58a23b0b6028aeb2c9d123172df4799/Osman-Yousefzada-Ventilator-Installation-2.jpg" data-mid="181255705" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/58e766e06bf163fdb56d72914db4296eb58a23b0b6028aeb2c9d123172df4799/Osman-Yousefzada-Ventilator-Installation-2.jpg" /> <img width="8192" height="5464" width_o="8192" height_o="5464" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1fab83d70b20abdee1ede8a7f09edc931efb15408a02273c23b262a9d67cd1a1/Osman-Yousefzada-Ventilator-Installation-3.jpg" data-mid="181255706" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1fab83d70b20abdee1ede8a7f09edc931efb15408a02273c23b262a9d67cd1a1/Osman-Yousefzada-Ventilator-Installation-3.jpg" /> <img width="8192" height="5464" width_o="8192" height_o="5464" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0eab0b8f6930427a014404609694dcb980411e947b3f939d5299db41293cf639/Osman-Yousefzada-Ventilator-Installation-4.jpg" data-mid="181255707" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0eab0b8f6930427a014404609694dcb980411e947b3f939d5299db41293cf639/Osman-Yousefzada-Ventilator-Installation-4.jpg" /> ︎︎︎Previous Next︎︎︎ https://osmanstudio.com/Rituals-and-Spells-1 Tue, 06 Jun 2023 10:10:31 +0000 Osman Yousefzada https://osmanstudio.com/Rituals-and-Spells-1 Rituals and Spells2023 Installations, Silvias Mothers Gallery Cromwell Place, London Rituals and Spells explores the idea of diaspora and finding non-conforming mechanisms of safety, remembering and belonging - a large part of the immigrant experience. Yousefzada the artist has reconstructed work created by his mother in the form of embroidery and other objects, and reconfigured them into protective talismans. Through his ritual of making he seeks to summon up different strengths, gods and worlds to face otherness. <img width="1573" height="1600" width_o="1573" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/388946308699d3c2dbd205e2545fd704e97f7654125e054c9d6fbb574608b011/Osman-Yousefzada-Rituals---Spells-Installation-2.jpeg" data-mid="181155076" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/388946308699d3c2dbd205e2545fd704e97f7654125e054c9d6fbb574608b011/Osman-Yousefzada-Rituals---Spells-Installation-2.jpeg" /> <img width="1067" height="1600" width_o="1067" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/47bf7b16e2a092a03191629cc528216f46b2f1e3933983b06afb4f8f7a319ec5/Osman-Yousefzada-Rituals---Spells-Installation-1.jpeg" data-mid="181155077" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/47bf7b16e2a092a03191629cc528216f46b2f1e3933983b06afb4f8f7a319ec5/Osman-Yousefzada-Rituals---Spells-Installation-1.jpeg" /> <img width="5350" height="8021" width_o="5350" height_o="8021" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8e4fb720801c708b7c2e5efe5a89aa89b2175e6916a3ecc196343944588cbb8/Osman-Yousefzada-Rituals---Spells-Installation-3.jpg" data-mid="181155238" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c8e4fb720801c708b7c2e5efe5a89aa89b2175e6916a3ecc196343944588cbb8/Osman-Yousefzada-Rituals---Spells-Installation-3.jpg" /> <img width="1067" height="1600" width_o="1067" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c31c1bf6e0c04ef41a8e3c8622026509785471ce038a540f6b5d6b763b96ce3f/Osman-Yousefzada-Rituals---Spells-Textile-1.jpeg" data-mid="181251361" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c31c1bf6e0c04ef41a8e3c8622026509785471ce038a540f6b5d6b763b96ce3f/Osman-Yousefzada-Rituals---Spells-Textile-1.jpeg" /> <img width="1067" height="1600" width_o="1067" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/67d1256bb5a23dc929b0c8004e7a19e125245a7dd8d0029c487246816a717c8d/Osman-Yousefzada-Rituals---Spells-Textile-3.jpeg" data-mid="181251363" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/67d1256bb5a23dc929b0c8004e7a19e125245a7dd8d0029c487246816a717c8d/Osman-Yousefzada-Rituals---Spells-Textile-3.jpeg" /> <img width="1247" height="1600" width_o="1247" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/125e6a72f943e28b5d8b94c5216065a70e89367544827162ea7d2f7a6281c411/Osman-Yousefzada-Rituals---Spells-Textile-2.jpeg" data-mid="181251362" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/125e6a72f943e28b5d8b94c5216065a70e89367544827162ea7d2f7a6281c411/Osman-Yousefzada-Rituals---Spells-Textile-2.jpeg" /> <img width="696" height="644" width_o="696" height_o="644" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1742b382b3f2fb32626cad19f041277ca60d2f973aa3044039b1ea29e9021aba/Osman-Yousefzada-Rituals---Spells-Paper-1.jpeg" data-mid="181251149" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/696/i/1742b382b3f2fb32626cad19f041277ca60d2f973aa3044039b1ea29e9021aba/Osman-Yousefzada-Rituals---Spells-Paper-1.jpeg" /> <img width="1067" height="1600" width_o="1067" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d67915e2081d9027bca1130e78f129264208755f5568397bd9be0172b2181a3c/Osman-Yousefzada-Rituals---Spells-Paper-2.jpeg" data-mid="181251150" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d67915e2081d9027bca1130e78f129264208755f5568397bd9be0172b2181a3c/Osman-Yousefzada-Rituals---Spells-Paper-2.jpeg" /> <img width="1067" height="1600" width_o="1067" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44b32d9bd2d8e2c14e28664028ac0737af245c9cbd1dd96325f010e1ddf852c1/Osman-Yousefzada-Rituals---Spells-Paper-3.jpeg" data-mid="181251151" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/44b32d9bd2d8e2c14e28664028ac0737af245c9cbd1dd96325f010e1ddf852c1/Osman-Yousefzada-Rituals---Spells-Paper-3.jpeg" /> <img width="1067" height="1600" width_o="1067" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2993058084e0c8743f7367cac89596e6ac3b5eaf40933397f99c3e750e62ef5/Osman-Yousefzada-Rituals---Spells-Paper-4.jpeg" data-mid="181251153" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e2993058084e0c8743f7367cac89596e6ac3b5eaf40933397f99c3e750e62ef5/Osman-Yousefzada-Rituals---Spells-Paper-4.jpeg" /> ︎︎︎Previous Next︎︎︎ https://osmanstudio.com/Talismans-4 Tue, 06 Jun 2023 11:46:58 +0000 Osman Yousefzada https://osmanstudio.com/Talismans-4 Talismans 42023 Textile, Vistamare Gallery, Milan Vistamare is pleased to present 'Alea iacta est', a group show curated by Milovan Farronato. Participating artists: Enrico David, Patrizio di Massimo, Anthea Hamilton, Celia Hempton, Camille Henrot, Maria Loboda, George Henry Longly, Goshka Macuga, Lucy Mckenzie, Paulina Olowska, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Eddie Peake, Sagg Napoli, Prem Sahib, Osman Yousefzada. The die is cast, the cards have been drawn and placed correctly on the table. Each one corresponds to an omen, a warning or an enigmatic indication. The arrangement follows the more usual trajectories of a prophetic reading. On the right is the unrevealed pack of cards, while on the left are the four external influences arranged side by side. In the centre, drawing a cross, take up their positions those representing the questioner, his present, his past, the answer to the question he poses and, in conclusion, the suggestion that the deck spontaneously intends to offer.&nbsp; So in Vistamare's Milan venue, Milovan Farronato, who recently returned to live in Milan, chooses to represent his path through the most significant collaborations that took place during the time he worked and lived in London, from 2013 to 2020. The works or assemblages of works constitute the arcana, while the gallery is the three-dimensional space where they take their position for an unprecedented, yet accurate, reading. Chance will guide the arrangement and combinations. The fifteen artists selected from among those with whom the relationship has been most compelling, enduring and multifaceted in a range of stimulating occasions. Another criterion, proximity to the geographical context and the period in question. The curator does not deny that the exhibition is a partial portrait and also a type of display that could be repeated in the future. The secrets contained in some of Christodoulos Panayiotou's folded and spilled works on the floor will configure the unrevealed deck, while the unpublished contributions of Patrizio di Massimo, Anthea Hamilton, George Henry Longly, Lucy Mckenzie the four external influences. What role was assigned by chance to the other participants: Enrico David, Celia Hempton, Camille Henrot, Maria Loboda, George Henry Longly, Goshka Macuga, Paulina Olowska, Eddie Peake, Sagg Napoli, Osman Yousefzada. It must really have been chance that dictated the rules of the game or, as Stéphane Mallarmé argues, coincidences are always driven, and so also Farronato rolled the die several times to find the most benevolent solution. After all, as the British writer Jeanette Winterson says: 'autobiography is just art and lies'. &nbsp; <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/113dd2cf4386a626695f891ab40066c417ed2ec812736fb9470870dc69b8db92/Omsan-Yousefzada-Talismans-4.jpeg" data-mid="181163165" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/113dd2cf4386a626695f891ab40066c417ed2ec812736fb9470870dc69b8db92/Omsan-Yousefzada-Talismans-4.jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f54e8109778eab085318c00c22f776654d4554149203441e6fa9664712b9a0de/Omsan-Yousefzada-Talismans-4-2.jpeg.jpeg" data-mid="181163159" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f54e8109778eab085318c00c22f776654d4554149203441e6fa9664712b9a0de/Omsan-Yousefzada-Talismans-4-2.jpeg.jpeg" /> ︎︎︎Previous Next︎︎︎ https://osmanstudio.com/What-is-Seen-What-is-Not-2 Mon, 05 Jun 2023 23:35:58 +0000 Osman Yousefzada https://osmanstudio.com/What-is-Seen-What-is-Not-2 What is Seen &amp; What is Not2022 &nbsp; Installation, Textiles, Ceramics, V&amp;A South Kensington, London Across three site-specific works, British-Pakistani artist Osman Yousefzada explores themes of displacement, movement, migration and climate change'Across three V&amp;A sites, his handcrafted textiles, wrapped objects and seating interventions present Osman’s unique and highly personal perspective on modernity and migration, offering a subtle and contemplative space to engage with the objects of his cultural heritage'. “In that summer light I could see the structures of hope underpinning Yousefzada’s interventions at the V&amp;A. The artist’s choreography of objects, structures and stories weaving together elements from multiple disciplines and geographies to show us how belonging can be claimed and enacted; not as tub-thumping, flag- waving polemic, but as graceful leaps of the artistic imagination. It makes visible the entangled histories whose acknowledgment is foundational to any efforts for collective, and more hopeful futures.”Hammad Nasar – Curator &amp; Writer “Everything starts at home. What Osman Yousefzada achieves with What is Seen and What is Not, is a powerful reminder of the fertile creative landscape that the idea of home offers, wherever and however that may be.” Catherine Ince – Chief Curator, V&amp;A East “Yousefzada has created these familiar pieces, with motifs and insertions of colonial gates from the undivided India; those imperceptible barriers and uninviting elevations. Now in Yousefzada’s installations, the once mighty colonial edifices and peasants’ humble possessions embrace, in the minimal and sublime language of Piet Mondrian.” Quddus Mirza – Critic &amp; Curator, Pakistan Times Commissioned by the British Council, in partnership with the V&amp;A and the Pakistan High Commission as part of the British Council’s festival season Pakistan/UK: New Perspectives - The 75th anniversary of Pakistan’s independence. Supported by The Rangoonwala Foundation. Special thanks to the Indus Valley School of Art &amp; Architecture, Berengo Studio, Tevta Lahore and the RCA. <img width="7175" height="4789" width_o="7175" height_o="4789" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/24af66dfd815b9423cef5e4163f08a2a253062989783d0c5a2d04c06e2b05730/Osman-Yousefzada-What-is-Seen-and-What-is-Not-36.jpg" data-mid="181109651" border="0" alt="Artist Osman Yousefzada What is See &amp; What is Not Installation" data-caption="Artist Osman Yousefzada What is See &amp; What is Not Installation" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/24af66dfd815b9423cef5e4163f08a2a253062989783d0c5a2d04c06e2b05730/Osman-Yousefzada-What-is-Seen-and-What-is-Not-36.jpg" /> <img width="3831" height="5740" width_o="3831" height_o="5740" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a6b622048490010a1dd53e1d43cbe1ce2b88003002138ee6f70016e118bea43/Osman-Yousefzada-What-is-Seen-and-What-is-Not-34.jpg" data-mid="181109650" border="0" alt="Artist Osman Yousefzada What is See &amp; What is Not Installation" data-caption="Artist Osman Yousefzada What is See &amp; What is Not Installation" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2a6b622048490010a1dd53e1d43cbe1ce2b88003002138ee6f70016e118bea43/Osman-Yousefzada-What-is-Seen-and-What-is-Not-34.jpg" /> <img width="7360" height="4912" width_o="7360" height_o="4912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/02541afb5890aeb1c7db24960ae55be33e9f350270239d92919c9f8e1617a6c6/Osman-Yousefzada-What-is-Seen-and-What-is-Not-29.jpg" data-mid="181109649" border="0" alt="Artist Osman Yousefzada What is See &amp; What is Not Installation" data-caption="Artist Osman Yousefzada What is See &amp; What is Not Installation" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/02541afb5890aeb1c7db24960ae55be33e9f350270239d92919c9f8e1617a6c6/Osman-Yousefzada-What-is-Seen-and-What-is-Not-29.jpg" /> <img width="7067" height="4716" width_o="7067" height_o="4716" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/baa0e23ce845321bd43aba4e05781f7a5b7ecbff7441462308454bca71ecc4a0/Osman-Yousefzada-What-is-Seen-and-What-is-Not-41.jpg" data-mid="181249246" border="0" alt="Artist Osman Yousefzada Textiles at Grand Entrance of V&amp;A" data-caption="Artist Osman Yousefzada Textiles at Grand Entrance of V&amp;A" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/baa0e23ce845321bd43aba4e05781f7a5b7ecbff7441462308454bca71ecc4a0/Osman-Yousefzada-What-is-Seen-and-What-is-Not-41.jpg" /> <img width="3958" height="5930" width_o="3958" height_o="5930" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a36d8bc2d0b7d7cf5359186979dcb722ccf89003ac71ec88f8631883423537a/Osman-Yousefzada-What-is-Seen-and-What-is-Not-38.jpg" data-mid="181432075" border="0" alt="Osman Yousefzada Textile Installation at V&amp;A Grand Entrance" data-caption="Osman Yousefzada Textile Installation at V&amp;A Grand Entrance" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8a36d8bc2d0b7d7cf5359186979dcb722ccf89003ac71ec88f8631883423537a/Osman-Yousefzada-What-is-Seen-and-What-is-Not-38.jpg" /> <img width="4165" height="6240" width_o="4165" height_o="6240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/43ebcf81a31b5a9c9f030b2813c172e3ad197bff23937be769db4925ceacc70d/Osman-Yousefzada-What-is-Seen-and-What-is-Not-40.jpg" data-mid="181432077" border="0" alt="Osman Yousefzada Textile Installation at V&amp;A Grand Entrance" data-caption="Osman Yousefzada Textile Installation at V&amp;A Grand Entrance" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/43ebcf81a31b5a9c9f030b2813c172e3ad197bff23937be769db4925ceacc70d/Osman-Yousefzada-What-is-Seen-and-What-is-Not-40.jpg" /> <img width="4037" height="6049" width_o="4037" height_o="6049" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2631843b251054cfa8d9b21904d6b7da3c56f73c0f5d54005ea07d0936ba5b8c/Osman-Yousefzada-What-is-Seen-and-What-is-Not-39.jpg" data-mid="181432076" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2631843b251054cfa8d9b21904d6b7da3c56f73c0f5d54005ea07d0936ba5b8c/Osman-Yousefzada-What-is-Seen-and-What-is-Not-39.jpg" /> Textile Installation at Grand Entrance The large canvas tapestries are a hybrid of painting, printmaking and embroidery. The abstracted figures are suggestive of ancient Talismanic figures, and storytelling. They are inspired by the Falnama and the Book of Omens (which became a set of tarot cards for fortune tellers in the Ottoman Empire and Mughal India) and evoke the figurines of Mohenjo-Daro – the dancing girl and the priest King. Derived from Yousefzada’s printmaking, the tapestries represent agitators and the children of Gods and Jinns with a long history of struggle, who do not see themselves as ‘the good immigrant’. <img width="4912" height="7360" width_o="4912" height_o="7360" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0c3afecd50c233f0723469634280069b307593f9d0426199c23fae0a8cf6049/Osman-Yousefzada-What-is-Seen-and-What-is-Not-27.jpg" data-mid="181109648" border="0" alt="Osman Yousefzada Installation at Sculpture Galleries" data-caption="Osman Yousefzada Installation at Sculpture Galleries" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e0c3afecd50c233f0723469634280069b307593f9d0426199c23fae0a8cf6049/Osman-Yousefzada-What-is-Seen-and-What-is-Not-27.jpg" />Ceramics Installation at Sculpture Galleries This work stems from lived experience of female migrant spaces and of how migrant women, like the artist’s mother, occupied space. These predominantly household objects encased in a covering, sometimes fabric, sometimes plastic, were put in plastic bags, for a safe flight or as an act of agency in patriarchal spaces.This work is a tribute to these hidden women who were not able to, or did not possess the codes to integrate. The folds and knots of these sculptures were their marks of identity and ownership. The abundance of these objects has become an altar to female migratory experience. <img width="4912" height="7360" width_o="4912" height_o="7360" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/25ffac8e888143a208da707ce06cd14e308204f123d4627cd98a0fba46eca684/Osman-Yousefzada-What-is-Seen-and-What-is-Not-28.jpg" data-mid="181250002" border="0" alt="Ceramics Installation at Sculpture Galleries" data-caption="Ceramics Installation at Sculpture Galleries" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/25ffac8e888143a208da707ce06cd14e308204f123d4627cd98a0fba46eca684/Osman-Yousefzada-What-is-Seen-and-What-is-Not-28.jpg" /> “These small cast forms might be thought of as anti-Christo in that they refuse to be defined by the material objects that they appear to conceal. It is not so much what is covered but rather the act of concealing that gives Osman’s sculptures a political charge – that is in direct contrast to the grand gestures that characterise the image spaces of Christo and Jeanne Claude’s wrappings. The ephemerality of Osman’s wrapped objects is fixed and made permanent, not through the mutation of object into image, but rather the transmutation of domestic objects into sculptural form.” Professor Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Head of Sculpture RCA <img width="6248" height="4170" width_o="6248" height_o="4170" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ccf5e021bc6753e9edcd44672c73a7fd7289fe51311fe06254687b0eb7a76f0/Osman-Yousefzada-What-is-Seen-and-What-is-Not-1.jpg" data-mid="181439725" border="0" alt="Osman Yousefzada What is Seen &amp; What is Not Ceramic Sculpture" data-caption="Osman Yousefzada What is Seen &amp; What is Not Ceramic Sculpture" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0ccf5e021bc6753e9edcd44672c73a7fd7289fe51311fe06254687b0eb7a76f0/Osman-Yousefzada-What-is-Seen-and-What-is-Not-1.jpg" /> <img width="7243" height="4812" width_o="7243" height_o="4812" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/84c16ac3e995e850e79b275ec4b7078f3ac8b516caa6bade91ae30db465ed896/Osman-Yousefzada-What-is-Seen-and-What-is-Not-8.jpg" data-mid="181439728" border="0" alt="Osman Yousefzada What is Seen &amp; What is Not Ceramic Sculpture" data-caption="Osman Yousefzada What is Seen &amp; What is Not Ceramic Sculpture" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/84c16ac3e995e850e79b275ec4b7078f3ac8b516caa6bade91ae30db465ed896/Osman-Yousefzada-What-is-Seen-and-What-is-Not-8.jpg" /> <img width="6989" height="4664" width_o="6989" height_o="4664" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe72753ce4618a30b495fb004612105c862489a63a370e6dea56214ae41e6655/Osman-Yousefzada-What-is-Seen-and-What-is-Not-7.jpg" data-mid="181439727" border="0" alt="Osman Yousefzada What is Seen &amp; What is Not Ceramic Sculpture" data-caption="Osman Yousefzada What is Seen &amp; What is Not Ceramic Sculpture" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe72753ce4618a30b495fb004612105c862489a63a370e6dea56214ae41e6655/Osman-Yousefzada-What-is-Seen-and-What-is-Not-7.jpg" /> <img width="7360" height="4912" width_o="7360" height_o="4912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dd157d89a0e03fe644b7d1ced79e2119c67f74f064af7646c043ab4e4924c325/Osman-Yousefzada-What-is-Seen-and-What-is-Not-16.jpg" data-mid="181439729" border="0" alt="Osman Yousefzada What is Seen &amp; What is Not Ceramic Sculpture" data-caption="Osman Yousefzada What is Seen &amp; What is Not Ceramic Sculpture" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dd157d89a0e03fe644b7d1ced79e2119c67f74f064af7646c043ab4e4924c325/Osman-Yousefzada-What-is-Seen-and-What-is-Not-16.jpg" /> ︎︎︎Previous Next︎︎︎ https://osmanstudio.com/Infinity-Pattern-1-1 Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:46:47 +0000 Osman Yousefzada https://osmanstudio.com/Infinity-Pattern-1-1 Infinity Pattern 1July 2021Installation, Selfridges Future Systems Building Birmingham, UK The iconic Selfridges building at Bullring is set for major renovation work beginning in Autumn 2020 with completion expected ahead of the Commonwealth Games in 2022. During this time, the building will be covered in a striking installation created by Birmingham-born artist Osman Yousefzada. This is Osman’s first piece of public art, which he has titled Infinity Pattern 1. The distinctive art work is part of a series of experimentations of tessellated patterns that are reminiscent of the perennial architectural qualities in his work, and also suggest a space without borders of symbolic bridges – connecting continuously shifting cultures and dream worlds. Osman Yousefzada’s new commission was carried out in collaboration with Ikon, as part of an ongoing creative relationship between the gallery, the artist and Selfridges. Previous presentations have included Osman’s first solo exhibition, Being Somewhere Else (2018) and the artist’s annual Procession through the city centre, from Selfridges to Ikon, as part of the gallery’s Migrant Festival (2018-). “We are delighted to forge a creative partnership with Osman and Selfridges. It is a privilege for us to support Osman, born and raised in Birmingham, as he extends his artistic practice into the public realm, and this city’s Selfridges building absolutely has the right kind of iconic status to match his ambition.” -&nbsp;Jonathan Watkins - Director of Ikon Gallery <img width="6564" height="4287" width_o="6564" height_o="4287" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8044fa51a803d991348ec8c4479e8705aa92584d78ef346589fa82df057927ab/Osman-Yousefzada-Infinity-Pattern-1--Selfridges-Birmingham.jpg" data-mid="181101751" border="0" alt="Artist Osman Yousefzada Infinity Pattern 1 Selfridges Installation" data-caption="Artist Osman Yousefzada Infinity Pattern 1 Selfridges Installation" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8044fa51a803d991348ec8c4479e8705aa92584d78ef346589fa82df057927ab/Osman-Yousefzada-Infinity-Pattern-1--Selfridges-Birmingham.jpg" /> <img width="7492" height="4997" width_o="7492" height_o="4997" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1757360b478f09f26f09de8a7969a82e818957e4c78b1083297cc1fed0a73af2/Osman-Yousefzada-Infinity-Pattern-1--Selfridges-Birmingham-2.jpg" data-mid="181101776" border="0" alt="Artist Osman Yousefzada Infinity Pattern 1 Selfridges Installation" data-caption="Artist Osman Yousefzada Infinity Pattern 1 Selfridges Installation" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1757360b478f09f26f09de8a7969a82e818957e4c78b1083297cc1fed0a73af2/Osman-Yousefzada-Infinity-Pattern-1--Selfridges-Birmingham-2.jpg" /> <img width="7478" height="4988" width_o="7478" height_o="4988" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/30ed3edb652283f802430a90b28ca7ef7e364e0c0673aa786debf10b9687a3bd/Osman-Yousefzada-Infinity-Pattern-1--Selfridges-Birmingham-4.jpg" data-mid="181102336" border="0" alt="Artist Osman Yousefzada Infinity Pattern 1 Selfridges Installation" data-caption="Artist Osman Yousefzada Infinity Pattern 1 Selfridges Installation" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/30ed3edb652283f802430a90b28ca7ef7e364e0c0673aa786debf10b9687a3bd/Osman-Yousefzada-Infinity-Pattern-1--Selfridges-Birmingham-4.jpg" /> ︎︎︎Previous Next︎︎︎ https://osmanstudio.com/Huis-Clos-No-Exit-1 Tue, 06 Jun 2023 21:27:30 +0000 Osman Yousefzada https://osmanstudio.com/Huis-Clos-No-Exit-1 Huis-Clos (No Exit)2020Installation and SculptureEarth Bricks, MorterA Rich TapestryLahore Biennale Foundation Huis-Clos (No Exit), is an elevated internal structure of an Eastern grave. Raised to ground level, and intersected by a walkway opening onto an area for contemplation, the immersice work asks viewers to find new ways to engage with a traditional place of loss and mourning. Surrounded by a partition curtain, the setting offers both a sense of intimacy and disguise. THe work also opens up a previously clandestine space - in its original form the grave would exclude 50% of the population (females), who are barred from participating in its ceremonial function or being allowed to view it before it becomes an earth filled mound. <img width="2370" height="1580" width_o="2370" height_o="1580" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2b9d0a6c24581937919bf72232eca9e932fad1ba562ca0a1e145d582990d503/Osman-Yousefzada-Huis-Clos.jpeg" data-mid="181256377" border="0" alt="Artist Osman Yousefzada Huis Clos (No Exit)" data-caption="Artist Osman Yousefzada Huis Clos (No Exit)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e2b9d0a6c24581937919bf72232eca9e932fad1ba562ca0a1e145d582990d503/Osman-Yousefzada-Huis-Clos.jpeg" /> <img width="1000" height="1340" width_o="1000" height_o="1340" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2738cf882c6fd6408865d28d7df8011fc970207304944d0450ee7bbb9a2d936a/Osman-Yousefzada-Huis-Clos-3.png" data-mid="181256375" border="0" alt="Artist Osman Yousefzada Huis Clos (No Exit)" data-caption="Artist Osman Yousefzada Huis Clos (No Exit)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2738cf882c6fd6408865d28d7df8011fc970207304944d0450ee7bbb9a2d936a/Osman-Yousefzada-Huis-Clos-3.png" /> <img width="932" height="1244" width_o="932" height_o="1244" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bff436a20095ffbf48f2e2b43b75e118253bb2e388c05bd9963404c1a6b54110/Osman-Yousefzada-Huis-Clos-2.png" data-mid="181256374" border="0" alt="Artist Osman Yousefzada Huis Clos (No Exit)" data-caption="Artist Osman Yousefzada Huis Clos (No Exit)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/932/i/bff436a20095ffbf48f2e2b43b75e118253bb2e388c05bd9963404c1a6b54110/Osman-Yousefzada-Huis-Clos-2.png" /> ︎︎︎Previous Next︎︎︎ https://osmanstudio.com/An-Immigrant-s-Room-of-Her-Own Tue, 16 Feb 2021 12:08:49 +0000 Osman Yousefzada https://osmanstudio.com/An-Immigrant-s-Room-of-Her-Own An Immigrant’s Room of Her Own 2018Installation, a series of symbols,&nbsp;Solo Show, ‘Being Somewhere Else’ Ikon Gallery, UK In this room of her own, objects are perpetually wrapped, packed, deferred for later. The hoping, plotting, preserving for the future is an explicit feature of the space. There are mysteries tied up, covered in plastic, reverently saved. Will she never quite unpack? The mood of the voyage endures. She is always arriving. For the immigrant woman, home is a receding idea of home, home is a possible future. She is actively creating a home that will never quite come into being, that will remain a half-dream. Is there a side of the immigrant woman herself that will remain wrapped, enclosed, preserved for later? In 1928, in her dazzling meditation, A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf did not address the situation of the migrant woman. The novelist’s capacious imagination did not reach as far as the migrant woman’s life, to the violence in her home, to the daunting puzzle of a new culture. But if it had she would have written this room, invoked its achievement, its aspiration. She would have seen the importance of this limited safety, this small private place to imagine, store, work. Here the immigrant woman makes dresses, touches fabric; this is her place in a home that is very definitively not safe, that offers no privacy, that places women at the bottom of every hierarchy; this is her sanctuary. Is this space, she will work to feed the children who will go on to be artists, university lecturers, government employees, entrepreneurs. For the immigrant woman, her children’s lives are also her art, her supreme and wily act of invention; they will live in ways she cannot even imagine, move sleekly through spaces she can’t decipher, but that possibility, that shimmering unknown, is her creative act. To save, hoard, wrap, to send off to school each day, to protect, to fail to protect, to be baffled, to be alienated, to love. The obstacles for the immigrant woman are more extreme even than those Woolf addresses in her history of the empire, and yet the beauty of the idea applies and endures through the uprooting. The room of one’s own. To make a home in a new world, to prepare, pack, for a future you can’t know in a place you don’t understand. This impossible home-making is the immigrant woman’s task. But Woolf saw that the space to think it through, to retreat, to refresh, this modest bit of physical space of her own is essential. She saw that our material conditions define our creations, our output on earth. Woolf writes, “When I ask you to earn money and have a room of your own I am asking you to live, in the presence of reality, an invigorating life.” This particular room of one’s own is not the tidy bourgeois room Woolf was envisioning, with its tea cosies and pleasant view onto a garden, and yet her principles cohere in it. Woolf could have been speaking to the immigrant woman when she writes, “I should remind you how much depends upon you, and what an influence you can exert on the future.”- Katie Roiphe <img width="2600" height="1641" width_o="2600" height_o="1641" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/349edd3699de2d9f78a804fc7d4e07bf72430313e3b98f27a1601a587a7d2506/Osman-Yousefzada-An-Immigrant-s-Room-of-Her-Own.jpeg" data-mid="179868777" border="0" alt="Artist Osman Yousefzada An Immigrant's Room of Her Own" data-caption="Artist Osman Yousefzada An Immigrant's Room of Her Own" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/349edd3699de2d9f78a804fc7d4e07bf72430313e3b98f27a1601a587a7d2506/Osman-Yousefzada-An-Immigrant-s-Room-of-Her-Own.jpeg" /> <img width="1182" height="787" width_o="1182" height_o="787" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c261d13d97fe655421d6cecc362a60955971843f62423c792d4dbcc4f1fc81b/Osman-Yousefzada-An-Immigrant-s-Room-2.jpeg" data-mid="179869224" border="0" 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