Longsight Art Space

Big things are taking shape in the park! We are extremely honoured to announce that Shahed Saleem @shahed.saleem is creating a brand new public sculpture which will be revealed on 22nd August for Our Longsight Festival.

A sculpture that you can sit within, chat together, and will be adorned by flags created by members of the community during workshops with the talented local artist Fajar @fajkart Titled 'If you live with me, I'll live with you' the sculpture is about co-existance, created out of two pieces hanging together, though it is not clear how they are interconnected or how they support each other, somehow they do.

About the artist: Shahed Saleem is an architect, author and Reader in Architecture at the University of Westminster. He works across disciplines to create installations, buildings, texts and drawings. He explores the built envrionment as a complex interplay of narratives as embodied through people’s individual and collective memories and imaginations.

Saleem co-curated the V&A Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2021 and his book ‘The British Mosque’ was published in 2018 by Historic England. His design work has been nominated for the V&A Jameel Prize 2013 and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2016, and his research work won a RIBA Presidents Medal for Research commendation 2020 and was nominated for the Historic England Angel Award and the SAHGB Colvin Prize 2019.