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Drawing on two decades of curatorial and research projects that explore the often violent entanglements of national histories, cultural structures of belonging, and ideas of discomfort, Hammad Nasar will consider the role of doubt in the art of Christopher Kulendran Thomas. Considering doubt as both subject and material, Nasar will seek to locate Thomas’s recent artistic projects through a process of triangulation between artistic practices that engage with multiple histories – in South Asia, Britain and continental Europe – in dialogue with Thomas’s interest in questioning dominant value and belief systems  

BIO I Hammad Nasar is a curator, writer and strategist based in London. Known for collaborative, exhibition-led inquiry, his recent exhibitions include: Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now (2023-24); Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia & Friends (2023-24); British Art Show 9 (2021-22); Turner Prize (2021); and, Rock, Paper, Scissors – the UAE’s national pavilion at the 57^th Venice Biennale (2017).

Nasar was co-founder of the pioneering London art space, Green Cardamom; Head of Research & Programmes at Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong; Executive Director of the Stuart Hall Foundation, London; and has held senior Research Fellowships at UAL’s Decolonising Arts Institute, and Yale University’s Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. He advises numerous arts organisations and is a Board Member of the Henry Moore Foundation (UK) and Mophradat (Belgium), and a Council Member of Asia Forum. He was awarded an MBE for services to the arts in 2023.