Description
Visual artist and writer, Osman Yousefzada, joins us for a conversation opening up a hidden world. This event promises to be humorous and fantastical, as well as harrowing, as we follow the journey of a closed conservative immigrant community on the wrong side tracks, where alternative masculinities compete with gender roles.
Yousefzada captures a hidden world through the eyes of a child, documenting lives and often untold stories of first generation immigrant women.
Encapsulated in his first acclaimed book, The Go-Between, which Stephen Fry reviewed as “one of the greatest childhood memoirs of our time,” Yousefzada’s fascinating life and career have had to navigate the dual burdens of racism and community expectations, and whether it is possible to exist in the spaces in between.
Yousefzada’s new exhibition, Where It Began, is at Cartwright Hall, Bradford, until 13 October.
Please note, this venue has changed from the printed programme.
About the Author
Osman Yousefzada
Osman Yousefzada was born in Birmingham to migrant parents who were illiterate both in English and their mother tongue. An artist and writer who studied at SOAS and Central Saint Martins, he has an MPhil from Cambridge University. He is a Professor of Interdisciplinary Practice at Birmingham School of Art, a researcher at Royal College of Art and a visiting fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge University. His visual art practice – of sculpture, moving image and textile installation – has been showcased in international programmes at the Whitechapel Gallery, MCA Sydney, Dhaka Art Summit, Ikon, V&A and more. He has made clothes for Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Lupita Nyong’o, Gwen Stefani, Emma Watson and many more. His practice is de-colonial and crosses borders, concerning itself with the rights of anonymous worker, disposable consumerism and undocumented histories. Yousefzada is concerned with injustice through his lived experiences intersecting class, race and gender roles.
About the Chair
Alexandra Pringle
Alexandra Pringle was Editor-in-Chief of Bloomsbury Publishing for 20 years, her authors including Susanna Clarke, Richard Ford, Elizabeth Gilbert, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, Colum McCann, Madeline Miller, Ann Patchett, George Saunders, Kamila Shamsie, Ahdaf Souief and Patti Smith. She is a Patron of Index on Censorship, a Trustee of Reprieve and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has been awarded Honorary Degrees of Doctor of Letters from Anglia Ruskin and Warwick Universities.
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