Mahtab Hussain
Checked top, striped top and cap

Checked top, striped top and cap

© Mahtab Hussain

Checked top, striped top and cap
Checked top, striped top and cap
ArtistBritish, born 1981
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Checked top, striped top and cap
  • from the series You Get Me?
Date2010, printed 2016
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 23 3/4 × 35 5/8 in. (60.3 × 90.5 cm)
Sheet: 28 1/4 × 40 1/8 in. (71.8 × 101.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the S. I. and Susie Morris Photography Endowment
Object number2016.295
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

In You Get Me?, Mahtab
Hussain focuses on the identity, ostracism, rejection, and shame experienced by
many young, working-class South Asian men in contemporary Britain and the tension
between those feelings of displacement and the men’s desires to become Westernized
and accepted. Looking to film and television for role models, the young men take
violence for masculinity and adopt the postures and symbols of African American
gang culture—chains and teardrop tattoos— to assert a sense of self. Hussain’s
intimate portraits reveal the tentative, and at times painful, transformation
of individual identity against a common backdrop.



ProvenanceThe artist; purchased by MFAH, 2016.
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