Sohail Khan | The Way You Are is The Way You Are (The Soft Rains of England) | March 2018

On Friday 16th March 2018 BasementArtsProject sees the return of Sohail Khan, this time in the guise of the Curator. Through the figure of the Curator, Khan has created a character that represents the cultural heritage of the artist, institutions and establishment; along the way he provides an interpretation of his own work in the context of the journey that Post Colonial British society has undertaken from the second world war to the present day, and projected this towards our fractured nations futurity. This is a key period in Khan’s personal history as it was this that brought his parents, both from differing cultures, to our shores; it is also the period that has brought us as a culture to our present moribund and confused state.

Accompanying the performance there will be an exhibition of evolving visual artworks including sculpture and painting. These works were begun in 1994 and come right up to the present day. They have never been shown before as a collection; they have however informed a live art career that spans twenty five years, and in this case provide a genuine historical narrative of personal performance practice as well as a game structure for audience interaction. The work, both performance and exhibition are designed to stimulate conversations around aspects of contemporary art practice through storytelling and our perception of these personal and national narratives inhabited through these objects.