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Recent:


EXHIBITION

Faith Place and Migration
Staffordshire Street Gallery, 8-17.03.24, London.

This exhibition questions the nature of a community archive and explore how the narratives of community members are embedded in and told through the architecture of their sacred spaces.


BOOK

Chapter 8: Performing the Symbiotic Relationship Between the Adapted Mosque and its Congregation.
Negotiating Identities, Language and Migration in Global London: Bridging Borders, Creating Spaces. Multilingual Matters, 2024.


The chapter examines the role of artistic fieldwork in performing mosques' religious identities, resulting in greater reflection, ownership, and empowerment for the communities involved. 


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Assembly: Investigating the role that artist fieldwork can play in Islamic sites of worship.
"Spiritual, Sacred, Secular" special issue, 2023.

This photo essay reflects upon the impact of Assembly (2018–2021) using the methodology “site-integrity”, a mode of site-specific practice that potentiates an exchange between site, artist, device, and the users or inhabitants of the site, its community. 

Featured:


PROJECT

Assembly 2018-21
Brick Lane Mosque, London, Old Kent Road Mosque, London, Harrow Central Mosque, London.


Assembly is a series of site-specific installations that perform Islamic prayer spaces, made and exhibited in Brick Lane Mosque (2018 –19); and Old Kent Road Mosque (2019–20). 


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Site-integrity: An embedded and embodied approach to practice based research.
The Art of Making: Methods that Work for Artmaking as Research Enquiry / Scene / Vol.11.2023


This article examines the key features of practice-based research through an analysis of ‘site-integrity’. By implicitly performing involvements in, as opposed to observations on site, the research activity becomes an embedded engagement in the world of which it is part.


EXHIBITION

Virtual Assembly 2022
Ambika P3 Gallery, London

Virtual Assembly is an interactive digital model of Old Kent Road Mosque and MANUK (Muslim Association of Nigeria UK) due to the demolition and redevelopment of their mosque on Old Kent Road in Southwark. 


Upcoming:


SITE PERFORMANCE

Moving Pictures 2022-24
Zoroastrian Centre For Europe, London


This RIBA-funded project examines the adaptive reuse of cinemas as places of worship in the diaspora. 


CONFERENCE

Alliances and Commonalities 2024
Artistic research conference, 17–19 October, Stockholm University of the Arts.


This conference will explore how technical devices enable conversations with material entities, places, and relevant forms of inquiry. 


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Virtual Assembly: Exploring the adapted British mosque through interactive Digital heritage modeling.
“Urgency of the Digital” special issue, 2025


This paper introduces Virtual Assembly (2023) and explores how the interactive model serves as an experiential archive, bringing to life the lived experiences and embodied knowledge of users through interaction.