Osman Khan Featured in Sculpture Magazine
Stamps Professor Osman Khan is featured in the cover story of the March/April 2025 issue of Sculpture Magazine. In a wide-ranging interview with Lauren Levato Coyne, Khan discusses the exhibition, Road to Hybridabad, on view at MASS MoCA through April 6, 2025.
More than two years in the making, “Road to Hybridabad” marks the culmination of an interwoven narrative that Detroit-based artist Osman Khan has been building for his entire life. Drawing on literary classics like One Thousand and One Nights and Waiting for Godot, the exhibition (currently on view at MASS MoCA) employs ordinary, familiar objects — telephone poles, a pickup truck, a coin-operated ride, furniture, and even breakfast cereals — to spin a new, fantastical tale brimming with immersive details that marry various folkloric traditions with contemporary technology. With help from an AI storyteller, narrative war rugs, a border djinn, and caged flying carpets, “Road to Hybridabad” offers a masterclass in visual storytelling, using magical effects, beauty, and humor to frame the complex and politically fraught terrain of immigration. Beneath the fantasy, Khan’s work captures the existential quandaries — the frustration, boredom, fear, wonder, and hope — faced by immigrants as they follow their path to “the land of milk and honey.”
Finding Hybridabad: A Conversation with Osman Khan | Sculpture Magazine
Learn more about Osman Khan’s Road to Hybridibad in our October 2024 feature story on the exhibition.