Nisa Khan: Undress me with your eyes...
Nisa Khan is a Derby-based artist working across video-performance, photography, sculpture, and installation. Their interdisciplinary practice unpacks Pakistani/British-Pakistani multiculturalism and diasporic exchanges using their body as a site and archive of experience. Khan cites and re-presents memories, historical references, popular culture, and cultural signifiers in translating these experiences to her viewer. In particular, they provide alternative representations of brown and marginalised bodies in addressing, subverting, and perpetuating cultural expectations of women.
Khan’s research currently investigates South-Asian dance performances known as Mujra which, pre-Britain’s colonisation of India, was considered an elite art form, and a pinnacle of Mughal art. Contemporary Mujra is enjoyed globally, however it's performers are exploited, face heavy censorship, and exist on the margins of society. For GLOAM, Khan exhibits new works that focus on the visual representation of Mujra’s female dancers (Tawaif), following study of Indian miniatures and Indian/Pakistani/Punjabi craft heritage dolls.
Khan is the recipient of the Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021 award. As part of this, her work Have you been sat there plucking your fanny hair? was shown at Firstsite and South London Gallery. They hold an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts, where their work The Browns Head Out of Town was shown at Tate Britain’s ‘Late at Tate’ (2020). Khan's from rags, to bitches to riches was shown as part of Saatchi Gallery’s London Grads Now. 21 exhibition.
Curated by Thomas Lee Griffiths
Private View: January 19th 6–9pm.
Open: January 21–02 on Saturdays 12–4pm, or by appointment
Supported with a National Lottery Project Grant, distributed by Arts Council England and Sheffield City Council.
160 Arundel Street, Sheffield, S14RE
Current
Sam Blackwood, Grace Clifford, Sam Hutchinson, Conor Rogers: Embers
2024
Speculative Proxy, Alexandra Searle & Joel Wycherley:
Locusts of the Sickly Sun
Group Show:
Yellow June (Juin Jaune)
Serf at GLOAM:
Ground Test
Semi Precious & Yasmin Vardi:
Sun is Out
Madeline Adams:
Entropy
Lucie Kordacova & Miroslava Vecerova:
Arid Landscapes and Ancient Waters
2023
GLOAM at Serf:
Testing Ground
Kelan Andrews, Brianna Beckford, Alana Lake & Renee Nie:
Tread Softly
Florence Peake, Hester Reeve, Mark Titmarsh & John Latham:
Material Action
Lucy Crouch & Matthew Vaughan: Tracing Matter
Jack Ginno:
Mirror
Jonny Davey & Sam Francis Read: Bogland
Dale Homles:
Welcome to Map Making Guild of Drystone Walling One-Eyed Giants
GLOAM at Eastside Projects:
If It Thunders on All Fool’s Day
GLOAM at Two Queens:
Studio-Holder Show
Nisa Khan:
Undress me with your eyes...
2022
Harold Offeh:
Creating Patterns
Group Show:
Beneath the Pewter Sky
Victoria Sharples:
Offering from the River
Celeste McEvoy:
Forehead On The Glass
Group Show:
An Expanding Field
Two Queens:
Members Show 2022
Alistair Woods:
Doves & Crossbones
2021
School of The Damned:
Blood From a Stone
Flo Main:
FOCM Spring Summer
General Practice:
Method Lab Part Two
Stella Baraklianou:
The Magician
Joe Singleton:
Million Tons Per Annum
2017-2020
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GLOAM is a collectively-run exhibition and studio space located in Sheffield City Centre. Since 2020, GLOAM has been run by co-directors (Stu Burke, Victoria Sharples & Thomas Lee Griffiths) at 160 Arundel Street; the former location of the DIY music venue, The Lughole. Previous co-directors include: Mark Riddington, Sam Francis Read & Rose Hedy Squires.
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