Mohammed Z. Rahman: Remember to Live

14 Feb-1 Apr 2025

Overview

Peer is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in a public gallery by London-based British-Bengali artist and writer Mohammed Z. Rahman, opening in February 2025. With a background in social anthropology, Rahman works with painting, sculpture, zine-making and illustration to interweave personal, social and folk histories of migration, labour, queerness, family and class.

Comprising a new body of work based on Rahman’s ongoing research on dreams and memories from the many communities that make up the artist’s relationship to London, Remember to Live is a life-affirming interrogation of whose lives are considered memorable and the desires that lead us to cement and reimagine what we consider history. 

Rahman’s treatment of their interlocutors’ inner worlds weaves aspects of his anthropological training, lived experience and self-taught portraiture and sculptural practice. Straddling themes of interspecies, internationalist and intergenerational kinship, subculture and labour, various solidarities foreground the work and re-evaluate the mundane, imaginary and bygone as magically alive.

Rahman’s exhibition is part of Peer’s 2025 Programme and will be accompanied by a series of engagement events as part of our Talks, Events and Workshops programme.

Biography:

Mohammed Z. Rahman (b.1997, lives and works in London, UK). Solo exhibitions include,  A Flame is a Petal (2024) and City of Burrows, both Phillida Reid (2023). He has previously worked on projects with institutions including the Whitechapel Gallery; Brent Biennial; Metroland Cultures; Goethe-Institut; UCL Culture; Tate Modern; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; and V&A East. Rahman has also worked with grassroots arts organisations, including Oitij-jo, gal-dem, Writing Our Legacy, Skin Deep Magazine, Wasafiri Magazine, Aire Place Studios and The Willowherb Review. Rahman is an awardee of the Frieze Tate Fund 2024.