Guide Us Upon The Straight Path
Ink on Paper
100 X 70 CM
Video on EKG heart monitor
30.5x15.5x29cm
2013
Jameel priz,V&A Museum, London, UK
The calligrapher Nasser Al Salem works in various mediums, not just on paper. In Guide us Upon the Straight Path, Al Salem uses a new and evocative calligraphic style based on the ‘script’ of the hospital monitor to write out a believer’s prayer. Derived by the verse’s call for believers to maintain their path on the straight and narrow. The words are spelled out on the monitor, in Al Salem’s innovative calligraphic style, to call on the urgency for humanity to follow the message of the divine. Before it is too late and the heartbeat falls into a flat and straight line
Video on EKG heart monitor 30.5x15.5x29cmInk on Paper, 100 X 70 CM