Rashid Arshed belongs to that group of artists who are well-versed in both – the art of painting and writing – and have pursued them both equally seriously.
While the writer managed language in his books, the painter manipulated words for pictorial purposes. Thus his work, from an early stage, was about text-based surfaces, built with layers of letters, which in most cases were indecipherable or indistinguishable.

The art of Rashid Arshed affirms that the artist can liberate himself from restrictions of all sorts; his work may also serve to free a viewer’s perception about art, religion, and politics, components of our culture that were inseparable in the past but not anymore.