Rasheed Araeen
When they Meet , 1973
Photographic collage
30 x 45.4 cm each
11 3/4 x 17 7/8 in each
150 x 181.6 cm overall
59 x 71 1/2 in overall
11 3/4 x 17 7/8 in each
150 x 181.6 cm overall
59 x 71 1/2 in overall
In the 1970’s London and Britain saw the rise of anti-immigrant marches and violence. These photos taken by Rasheed and presented in a grid is called When they Meet and...
In the 1970’s London and Britain saw the rise of anti-immigrant marches and violence. These photos taken by Rasheed and presented in a grid is called When they Meet and refers to the meeting or clashes between the Riot Police and the National Front. This occurred outside Conway Hall in 1973. As the police gave little protection to South Asian people who were brutally and sometimes fatally attacked by the National Front making these works particularly poignant.
Exhibitions
Grosvenor Gallery, London, Rasheed Araeen, Sixty-Three Years of the Figural, held at Frieze, No. 9 Cork Street, 29 June - 15 July 2023
Cambridge, The Heong Gallery, Rasheed Araeen: A British Story, 18 October 2024 – 2 February 2025, (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue)
Publications
Araeen, Rasheed, Making Myself Visible, London, 1984, illustrated pp. 60-61 in B&WEd. Nick Aikens, Rasheed Araeen: A Retrospective, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, MAMCO Geneva, Baltic Gateshead, Garage Moscow, 2017 - 2019, illustrated p.212-123
