Prompted by the archive - the personal and the popular - Ibrahim Ahmed explores the connection between the image and embodiments of masculinity. Through self-portraiture, he offers new representations, more accurately aligned with his understanding of his gender position. Ahmed’s manipulations of material are informed by research into the histories and movements of peoples and objects. His works in photography, sculpture, and installation engage with subjects related to colonial legacies, structures of power, cultural hybridity, and fluid identity, generating discussion around ideas of the self beyond the parameters of the nation-state. Through his practice, Ahmed interrogates his relationship with manhood, and its codification into his body.