Umar Rashid’s (@frohawktwofeathers) solo exhibition “Ancien Regime Change 4, 5, and 6” is open now at MoMA PS1 (@momaps1)! ✨ We invite you to listen in as the artist gives a heartfelt speech, on the front steps of the museum, to open the show. Using a range of sources, Rashid’s work spans real and fictional empires, as well as figures from antiquity to popular culture. In his compositions, Rashid traverses periods, geographies, and cultures, citing sources including 18th century European manuscripts, “byōbu” (Japanese screen painting), Persian miniatures, Yoruba deities, ancient Egyptian cosmologies, and American rappers. Rashid’s research-based process frees historical events from dominant narratives, and instead proposes counternarratives and critical fabulations. Figures move between works, battles are fought, winners capture their spoils, losers retreat, and the narrative pushes forth. By foregrounding Black and brown people in his paintings, Rashid references the erasure of the key roles that historically marginalized people have played in the construction and deconstruction of Western histories. Within his practice, many positions and references collide to reveal multiplicities across places and times, breaking free from a static past into one that is continuously being reshaped in the present. Head to the link in bio for more information on the exhibition. Video: Umar Rashid gives a speech at the opening of “Ancien Regime Change 4, 5, and 6” on the steps of MoMA PS1 in Queens, NY #umarrashid