The Art House is delighted to announce its winter exhibition, Paradise Carpet by the British Muslim artist Zarah Hussain. The exhibition combines a stunning fusion of animation, immersive light projections and bold colourful artworks.
Opening to coincide with Light Up, Hussain will present a new innovative and imaginative participatory exhibition that explores how spirituality, geometry, technology and traditional Islamic design meet. The artist will collaborate with first-year students at the Academy of Live Technology based at Production Park in Wakefield. Together they will create an installation in which a digital carpet is central to the gallery.
Overhead projectors weave intricate, ever-changing patterns onto a soft floor. Visitors can sit, walk, pray or meditate while being bathed in soft coloured light. The gallery will be calming, spiritual and contemplative, accompanied by a specially commissioned ambient soundtrack to create a warm, welcoming and sensually enveloping space for everyone.
This project is timely. We live in divisive times where fears of ‘the other’ or outsiders have become definitive features of discourse. This exhibition is more than art – it is a call for cohesion. Bridging cultural gaps and bringing people together through shared experiences and conversation.
Find out more about Zarah Hussain and her practice here.
