Exhibition Tour with Danit Ariel, Photoworks Curator

Join Danit Ariel, Photoworks curator, for a free tour of Mahtab Hussain’s exhibition What Did You Want To See?

Commissioned by Ikon and Photoworks, the exhibition features new work, including Hussain’s systematic documentation of 160 Birmingham mosques, revealing the diversity of mosque architecture; portraits of Birmingham residents which highlight the city’s vibrant Muslim community; and a communal space within the gallery aimed at fostering inclusion and intercultural dialogue. 

This exhibition is supported by the John Feeney Charitable Trust and Freelands Foundation. 

About the speaker 

Danit Ariel is an artist, writer and curator, whose practice looks into how art can create new ways of meeting. She is the author of Nayah: Empathy as an Act of Resistance which explores the role of gender in practices of empathy; and All the Tables are Brown, looking more specifically at language as both a bridge and barrier between communities. As Photoworks curator, Ariel manages the curatorial programme and develops the Photoworks Festival.