He works across moving image, installation, sculpture, textile, and performance art, referring to the socio-political issues of today. Yousefzada’s practice is led by modes of storytelling, merging autobiography with fiction and ritual.
His series of solo interventions titled ‘What Is Seen & What Is Not’ was shown in 2022 at the Victoria & Albert Museum in South Kensington, London. Across three site-specific works, this presentation responded to the 75th anniversary of Pakistan and explored themes of displacement, movement, migration, and climate change.
For the launch of the exhibition Yousefzada choregraphed a dance performance in the John Madejeski garden, celebrating the artist’s interventions and offering an opportunity to bring diaspora voices to the heart of the V&A Museum, to be in conversation with the museum’s vast South Asia Collection.
Yousefzada is a research practitioner at the Royal College of Art and a visiting fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge University. His work has been shown at notable international institutions including, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Wapping Project, London; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio; Ringling Museum, Florida; Lahore Museum, Pakistan; Design Museum, London; Lahore Biennale, Pakistan and Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh.
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Courtesy and ©Osman Yousefzada, a performance choreographed by Akram Khan Dance Company, with dancers: Yesica Castellon Jimenez, Sofia Rafiqui, and Aishani Ghosh, 2023.
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