We warmly welcome you to the opening of Rooted Through Realms, a solo exhibition by artist-curator Shaheen Kasmani, featuring a new body of work that explores land justice, inspired by the gardens of paradise.
This Digbeth First Friday launch event will include a DJ set by the wonderful Fatuma Khaireh, as well as mehndi stalls and food.
About the exhibition
Rooted Through Realms calls upon us to bear witness and connect the dots between ongoing settler colonialism, climate change, and local and global injustices, whilst also encouraging us to employ our senses and otherworldly faculties to collectively imagine new possibilities as inspired by the gardens of paradise.
This exhibition was conceived by Shaheen Kasmani and co-curated by Aaisha Akhtar. In developing this exhibition together, Shaheen and Aaisha have been in conversation since 2023. In 2024, Shaheen undertook a residency with Ort Gallery to focus on her artistic research and development, allowing her to create this new body of work. Together, they explored themes of divine justice, mercy, and life-affirming ways of seeing in relation to this earthly plane.
Rooted Through Realms was made possible with support from Arts Council England. Shaheen’s residency and Or
