Athr Gallery - Jeddah - KSA
07 February - 05 May 2018
Founding Director of Athr Gallery
ORGANISED BY:
Athr Gallery
PRESENTED IN COLLABORATION WITH
Pace Gallery
PRESS:
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1312701/saudi-arabia
https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/536046
The multimedia work titled Allah by artist Nasser Al-Salem is a two fold installation deriving from an earlier work by the artist. The visual manifestation of the word Allah is an abstracted representation in which its etters are stripped down to basic geometric lines and shapes. Nasser explores through an abstract minimalist approach how form and color with the use of light can imitate a transcendental experience. His exploration questions the conventional aesthetics of traditional calligraphic form in representing the word Allah, and seeks to immerse its viewers into the infinite. The work aims at being suggestive of realms of meanings beyond literal reading.
Other artists included Carlos Cruz-Diez, James Turrell, Leo Villareal, Anne Senstad, Ahmed Mater, and Robert Irwin. Their seminal works treat light as a unique mode of immersion, with each installation composed to exceed their material, allowing a flow of transcendent effects on the viewer, to steer and expand the human consciousness. The experiential and interactive exhibition subverted notions of light and space as we understand them, and the cross overs these may have in playing with our perceptions and psychology. Together, they explore the human visual perception, and how both light and color affect our emotions or change the way we feel within a space.
He Rules All Affairs
Installation video, Mirror
2018