Showcase: Aliyah Hussain

Aliyah Hussain's practice encompasses photography, printmaking and performance. She experiments with the performative and technical aspects of different media to create works that reference futurist narratives, utopian visions and ritualistic practices embedded within the everyday. She's based in Islington Mill studios, Salford. 

“I've exhibited my work throughout Manchester and further afield and feel pretty lucky about being a part of the city’s exciting design and print community. In 2009 I received the Google Photography Award, exhibiting at the Saatchi Gallery, London. I've also worked as a performer for different artists including Manchester International Festival’s exhibition 11 Rooms for Marina Abramović and Joan Jonas, as well as a solo show of prints and many group shows, the most recent being Triptych curated by Laura Mansfield.

“I am also a part of the collective Volkov Commanders, a group of artists who devised a unified alter ego to create collaborative sculptural and performance works that explore the boundaries between visual art, dance and costume. We are a unified alter ego from a future of our own making; a fiction that revolves around us being ambassadors from the Moon, sent to study and interact with Earthlings, pervades all of our performances. These performances have included a future disco party from the Moon, a royal banquet with traditional Moon food, folk dancing, and a mobile orchestra made up of percussive costumed creatures.”

www.aliyahhussain.co.uk