Umar Rashid: Per Capita

Umar Rashid: Per Capita

by | May 15, 2021 | Journal, Uncategorized

PER CAPITA, an immersive experience outside the white cube, extends Rashid’s acuity to form space and time as a cosmic journey that reimagines colonial Los Angeles. Rashid’s rich iconography questions the role of the individual in the collective shaping of...
The Fate of Empire

The Fate of Empire

by | Apr 3, 2019 | Andrew Gilbert, Exhibitions, Mitrikova & Demjanovic, Umar Rashid (Frohawk Two Feathers)

Born from an idea by Andrew Gilbert, collected and developed by Camilla Nacci, the unprecedented combination of the three young artists Andrew Gilbert, Jarmila Mitríková & Dávid Demjanovič and Umar Rashid (Frohawk Two Feathers), whose path is united by an iconographic research which draws heavily on historical episodes more or less explicitly characterized. However, in all cases, it is a visionary reinvention, capable of giving alternative solutions to the great history with aesthetic results of great elegance, in which the loans from antiquity are rewritten in a contemporary key in a language that is at times biting, at times poetic.