20 October 2025

• 6:30 – 7:30 pm

• A talk as part of the Paul Mellon Lecture Series 'Modern, Minimal, Practical, and Social: the Art of Rasheed Araeen' delivered by Courtney J. Martin

• National Gallery, London

Central to Araeen’s mid-career and later work were his early sculptures, which he defined as “structures”. Alongside an otherwise minimalist practice, Araeen began to write about his objects, shifting his definition of them as sculpture into the more sociocultural designation of structure. Structures relied on viewer engagement and invited interaction with other objects, viewers and each other, changing the economy of space within the exhibition. These structures showed the signature of Araeen’s interest in low technology, ephemerality, roughness and an overall surface crudeness taking shape.