Artist Rehana Zaman joins as FACT’s second annual board artist-in-residence, a unique initiative in which an artist is invited to approach the sphere of governance and its exchanges as an art medium.

Rehana Zaman is an artist working with moving image and performance. Raised in Heckmondwike (West Yorkshire) and now based in London, Rehana has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally including Serpentine Projects (forthcoming), British Art Show 9, ICA Miami and Liverpool Biennial. Her artistic practice is concerned with notions of kinship and social relations, seeking out possibilities of intimacy and disruption within hostile contexts. Conversation and cooperative methods sit at the heart of her work. Following the launch of FACT’s annual board of trustees’ artist residency in 2021 (with inaugural artist Jack Ky Tan), Rehana joins the centre for a twelve month artistic intervention. She has previously been shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award and her films are distributed by LUX.

Building on his recent participatory project, Learning Non-Human which contributed to the writing of our environmental policy, FACT has invited artist Jack Tan to be our inaugural artist-in-residence within our Board of Trustees.

The residency takes as its starting point the question of what is ‘Trust’ (from the word ‘Trustee’) and how is trust understood and enacted within an organisation between staff, trustees, funders and audiences? Trust is both represented and performed in this context and Jack is keen to explore how governance may become an ‘art material’ with which new models of practice may be shaped, through an exploration of feminist, decolonial, queer, or ecological approaches.