Profit over Peace (2022)

Part of the GOGBOT x Rijksmuseum Twenthe exhibition Democracy Now?, running from September 17, 2026, through February 14, 2027. The exhibition is free to visit during GOGBOT Festival, reserve your free ticket.

If France and England were united in a single insane colonial superpower, that would be “Frengland”, a ficitonal historical state conceived by Umar Rashid. He shapes this universe through paintings, maps, and flags, interweaving historical facts with fiction to tell us a story about power, colonialism, race, and identity. Perhaps this fictional world is not so different to our actual history.

Los Angeles based artist Umar Rashid, merge fact and fiction in his imagined “Frenglish Empire”. In the remix of diverse visual traditions, from comic culture, African cosmology, and Afrofuturism to Renaissance portraiture, hip hop, and Persian miniature, his work humorously challenges colonial narratives and how they shape the present