Letters to You - Kiara Mohamed
Kiara’s letters are available from Tangent Projects during gallery hours.
Letters to You are hand written wax sealed letters written by Kiara Mohamed. This project is about sending love, human appreciation and kindness out to the world. In a world that is trying to divide us, it is important more than ever than we show empathy, that we reach other to one another and love anonymously. These letters are physical manifestation of these ideas.
Housing Kiara Mohamed’s Letters to You is a continuation of the exhibition project Prototypes for a Feminist Future, a group exhibition curated by Tangent Projects earlier this year. The exhibition sought to stimulate a dialogue regarding the potential of non gendered structures and explore how to create an equitable microstructure, this would go on to develop the ideological foundation for the new Tangent Projects space.
Kiara is a Black Trans artist based in Toxteth, Liverpool. His work focuses on identity, social issues and the role art plays in our lives in addressing these issues. His art can be created with photography, poetry, film or even drone photography to comment on post-colonial ideas and reflect on their background, feminist ideology and and the community that he lives in. Kiara is always looking to push the envelope on the idea of race, gender, community and social responsibility.
Kiara Mohamed completed and graduated from his Bachelor of Arts, in Arts and Humanities, from Liverpool Hope University in 2015. He has performed and exhibited his work in various different galleries and spaces in the UK including Output Gallery, Tate Liverpool, The World Transformed Festival (Liverpool) and the British Museum (London). He is co-founder of Black Liver Birds, a podcast for and by black womxn from Liverpool, and team member of ROOT-ed Zine, a self-published publication that aims to promote, support and inspire creative people of colour within the North West of England. Kiara has also helped to curate exhibitions for Savera UK, a UK based charity that helps survivors of forced marriage and honour based violence. Kiara has two young daughters that he bringing up to be total badasses.