- Venue
- Subway Gallery
- Starts
- Thursday, September 15, 2011
- Ends
- Saturday, October 1, 2011
- Address
- Kiosk 1 Joe Strummer Subway Edgware Rd/Harrow Rd London W2 1DX
- Location
- London
Curated by Gabriella Daris, Building Desires showcases one part of an ongoing photographic project by Mahtab Hussain which explores the complexities of ‘identity’ and ‘self’ within the contemporary British Pakistani community. The project focuses on a burgeoning internal conflict of identity projected by an agitated younger generation of British born Pakistani males. It considers the notion that this group is split between their immediate and traditional environment – an intricate system of cultural and religious practises which puts the collective whole first and the West’s persuasive ideology of the individual. Existing between these two conflicting worlds, Hussain’s images witness these young men’s concept of individuality and masculinity, most prominently expressed through a ‘performance’ and show of ‘acting hard’ and their attempt to break down society’s stereotypical notions of a Pakistani male living in the West.
