2023
Installation,
Goodman Gallery, LondonYousefzada’s piece Charpai Sculpture, explores the traditional and contemporary techniques of Pakistani and European workshops. The work takes the charpai, a daybed typically found across South Asia, and reimagines it utilising salvaged...
A Poem & A PerformanceBring the dark dust
from my feet
I’m coming
Our footprints that
intermingled in the past
I’m coming
To protrude forward
To create our new cosmos
To heal, to muster up
Our amulets and potions
I’m coming
To flower and let...
2018
Performance & Costumes
Dhaka Art Summit, BangladeshOn the occasion of its 8th edition, the Volcano Extravaganza — the annual festival of contemporary arts conceived and produced by London-based non-profit institution, the Fiorucci Art Trust —...
A Collaborative Journal.
A collaborative Journal, called The Collective, working with artists, writers and other creative. Each 18-24 month publication, was themed, No 5 was titled CODE. Creatives...
Op-Ed | Osman Yousefzada journeys to post-colonial Bangladesh to meet the workers who make our clothes
Published by Business of Fashion.
30 June 2020
Garment workers in...
Published by The Guardian News.
22 Nov 2020
Writer Osman Yousefzada in his London studio: ‘The colour of my skin and my Muslim name was used to assess the level...
Published by Vogue UK.
4 June 2020In March 2017, a notification popped up on my WhatsApp feed: “Salam Bro, we are famous!... For the wrong reasons.” It was followed by a link to an article in the Daily Mail, with the headline “So...
A memoir by Osman Yousefzada
Published by Cannongate
Jan 2022
‘Osman Yousefzada’s - The Go Between is a coming of age story set in the 80s & 90s, opening up a window into a closed migrant community.
The...