N A S S E R A L S A L E M.
He is the First and the Last
Video Installation and mirrors
on loop
2018
The multimedia work titled He is the First and the Last 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 letters 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.