Wednesday 11 July to Monday 27 August at Djanogly Art Gallery, Lakeside Arts Centre, University Park. The gallery is open 11am-5pm, Monday to Saturday, and noon-4pm, Sundays and bank holidays. Admission is free.

Kashif Nadim Chaudry’s stunning and dramatic exhibition of new work has been produced during his residency at Lakeside Arts Centre during 2010 and 2011. It takes its title from the term coined by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene (1976), to describe ‘a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation’ —analogous to a gene — capable of spreading and perpetuating cultural ideas and values.

In a series of sculptural investigations extending throughout the three spaces of the Djanogly Art Gallery, the artist explores this notion of inherited value systems and of ‘traditional’ acts of ritual and ceremony from the perspective of his Pakistani and Muslim heritage, and more specifically from his marginalised identity as a British-born gay man.