Most will know Osman Yousefzada as one among London’s most beloved designers. However the multi-hyphenate is a superb wordsmith, having launched his debut memoir in February, and a lauded artist. A lot in order that Yousefzada has been commissioned by the V&A Museum to create a triptych of works celebrating 75 years of Pakistan’s independence.
Titled What’s Seen and What’s Not, the works had been made in partnership with the Pakistan Excessive Fee as a part of the British Council’s pageant season Pakistan/UK: New Perspective.
Reflecting themes of migration, motion and displacement, Yousefzada works with non-traditional supplies ritual-inspired portray to examine textiles and wrapped objects, alongside a seating set up. “What’s Seen and What’s Not affords a portrait of up to date Pakistan, by a British diasporic lens because it makes an attempt to reel away from colonial subjugation,” says the artist.
“[The exhibition] is a commentary on the migratory expertise, displacement and the results of the local weather disaster,” provides Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A. “Interventions equivalent to this supply a possibility to convey diaspora voices to the guts of the V&A, to be in dialog with the museum’s huge South Asia assortment.”
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