- Venue
- 50 Mortimer Street
- Date
- 10 October – 19 November 2022
London,
United Kingdom
Workplace is delighted to present an exhibition of new photographs from Marwan Bassiouni’s ongoing series New British Views, in which the Swiss artist captures the English landscape as framed by the windows of mosques and Islamic prayer rooms. Inspired by the long history of immigration in Britain following the country’s colonial past, Bassiouni spent time travelling across the UK to investigate how its landscape and architecture can be observed anew from the perspective of the religious sites of its Islamic communities. Through this journey, which echoes those undertaken by the artist in the Netherlands and Switzerland, Bassiouni challenges the stereotypes and clichés associated with the representation of Arab culture and Islamic religion within Western countries.