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Cornerhouse Presents Rashid Rana in His First Major UK Show

artwork: Rashid Rana - "Desperately Seeking Paradise II", 2010 11 - UV print on aluminium and stainless steel - 386.4 x 386.4 x 332.1 cm. - Courtesy the Tiroche DeLeon collection & Art Vantage Ltd. On view at the Cornerhouse, Manchester in "Rashid Rana: Everything Is Happening At Once" until December 18th.


Manchester, UK.- Cornerhouse, with Asia Triennial Manchester 11, is pleased to present the first major UK public solo show from Rashid Rana, widely considered to be the most prominent and original contemporary artist working in South Asia today. “Rashid Rana: Everything Is Happening At Once” is on view at the gallery until December 18th. The exhibition includes new and recent work that cuts across conventional notions of the scale and status of the photographic object, opening up its potential to represent cultural, social and physical realities. The works in this exhibition, spanning 1992 to the present, blur the divide between two and three-dimensional forms to challenge the viewer’s understanding of the world in which they live. Photo sculptures, large-scale photo mosaics, installations and new video work subvert perception of size and structure and urge us to look deeper into the relationship between the fragment and the bigger picture.