Kameelah Janan Rasheed

Are We Reading Closely? (II)

four portrait orientation large black rectangles of fabric hang from the rafters of a large school hall-esque room. The front two have white printed text, diagrams and shapes on.

four portrait orientation large black rectangles of fabric hang from the rafters of a large school hall-esque room

detail of black fabric hanging with white text printed that seems to be assembled from cut out words. The words read 'with strange writing beyond the range of the universeI read a nourishing page that doesn't avoid flutters in your heart'

four portrait orientation large rectangles of fabric hang from the rafters of a large school hall-esque room. The front two hangings have black text, numbers and diagrams on and a black and white photograph of a black person with white shirt and holding a postcard in their hand

detail of bottom of white fabric hanging with black text that reads 'I say, gesturing to the reader' repeated three times over three lines

5 Florence Street

New York-based artist, writer and educator Kameelah Janan Rasheed explores Black textual production and interdisciplinary storytelling. Working across a range of media, forms and contexts, Rasheed takes an experimental approach to the arrangement of letters, words, sentences, shapes, tones and textures. Her work frequently engages with the poetry, politics and pleasures of approximation as well as (mis)recognition, translation, privacy and dirty data.

A believer in the generative qualities of unfinished work, Rasheed creates iterative and provisional projects. These include publications, poetry, prints, digital archives, lecture-performances, library interventions, performance scores and sprawling, ‘architecturally-scaled’ xerox-based collages.

Curated by Glasgow School of Art Exhibitions

Venue Partner: Urban Office

Supported by Glasgow International