FEBRUARY 21, 2024
“The newest exhibition at Twelve Gates Arts, whose mission is to amplify contemporary art from South to West Asia, is an immersive, psychedelic installation titled Alhamdu | Muslim Futurism. Conscious of the nuanced, weighted experience of being a Muslim in the U.S. diaspora today the exhibit invites the viewer to call and answer, again and again, what they envision as Islamic Futurism … This joint effort is dynamic and considers the current and historic issues of Islamophobia, anti-blackness, xenophobia, imperialism, and racism affecting both the Zeitgeist and material conditions of displaced Muslims. The video installation – titled “The Mirage,” meaning “praise be to God” – is credited to Shimul Chowdhury, Abbas Rattani, and Yusuf Siddiq from MIPSTERZ.”
— VRIDDHI VINAY, ARTBLOG
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