Alina Akbar
Alina Akbar is a visual artist and storyteller based in Manchester. Working in film, photography and installation her practice is rooted in the experience of both the personal and collective and is frequently developed through conversation, collaboration and being chronically online. Intuitively detangling the complexities of working class representation and issues of diversity which is amplified through her cinematic eye for capturing raw reality intertwined with poetic narratives. Akbar’s work bridges worlds that rarely meet, inviting audiences into her lived experience of class divide through street documentation and the archiving of cultural moments.
Her work has been shown at The Whitworth Gallery, Touchstones Art Gallery, Harlesden High Street, Aviva Studios, V&A Museum late and her most recent film Pardesi Raga is a permanent part of Manchester Museums South Asia Gallery commissioned for the project space. The film was also part of the CIRCA Art Prize 2024 showing across London, Milan and Berlin.
Portrait of Alina Akbar
Alina Akbar, Pardesi Raga (2024), video still
Alina Akbar, Pardesi Raga (2024), video still
Video: Alina Akbar, Pardesi Raga (2024), excerpt
Alina Akbar, Pardesi Raga (2024), installation view at Manchester Museum. Photo by Gareth Gardener
Video: Alina Akbar, A to D (2021), excerpt
Alina Akbar, A to D (2021), video still
