Umar Rashid continues to hone a multidisciplinary, deeply satirical and fantastical interest in what occurs in the blurs between fact, fiction and time, consolidated in new paintings that end his 2021-22 series Ancien Regime Change, and directly references England in the work: “Yes. The state is really deceased and you can tell by the actual writing on the wall, Or, The white cliffs of Dover is liveliest near the spill”, 2022. Rashid has been developing the complex saga of the Frenglish Empire - a project which allows him to respond to the past, contemporary and future narratives that are geo- graphically pertinent, live and contestable.
 Rashid critically upend, in different ways, the processes of the writing of history pointing out its omissions and fabulations, and the resulting legacies which continue to frame contemporary life experiences and attitudes.
 Today is the last day to catch Umar Rashid’s work at Frieze London, booth H22. 
 Opening hours: Sunday 16th September 11am - 6pm⁠
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📷️ Umar Rashid, Blackness can’t live in three dimensions if it tried. Nero and the Harlem Knights enter the Equus Cosmica for real, this time., 2022, acrylic on canvas,182.9 x 182.9 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary. ⁠ 
Installation view of Frieze London 2022, Joy Labinjo & Umar Rashid, booth H22, Frieze London, 12- 16 October 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary.
 Umar Rashid, Captain Cooking ,Hawaiian Style and the wrath of Pele unleashed upon the pirates. Just violence in technicolor. 1795., 2022, acrylic on canvas, 182.9 x 182.9 cm, 72 x 72 in @friezeofficial #tiwanicontemporary #friezeweek #friezemasters #artfair #joylabinjo #umarashid #london