Nasser Al Salem, Amma Baad, 2019. Exhibition installation view, Delfina Foundation. Photo by Tim Bowditch. Courtesy Delfina Foundation. Nasser Al Salem, Amma Baad, 2019. Exhibition installation view, Delfina Foundation. Photo by Tim Bowditch. Courtesy Delfina Foundation. Nasser Al Salem, Amma Baad, 2019. Exhibition installation view, Delfina Foundation. Photo by Tim Bowditch. Courtesy Delfina Foundation. Nasser Al Salem, Amma Baad, 2019. Exhibition installation view, Delfina Foundation. Photo by Tim Bowditch. Courtesy Delfina Foundation. Nasser Al Salem, Amma Baad, 2019. Exhibition installation view, Delfina Foundation. Photo by Tim Bowditch. Courtesy Delfina Foundation.
SAUDI ARABIA
"Amma baad is presence which occurs in the future, it occupies a space in reality through a presence that precedes it"
Nasser El Salem
In his first solo exhibition in the UK, Saudi artist Nasser Al Salem uses his expanded approach to calligraphy to present a new series of works exploring the relationship between language, time and space.
Through a series of sculptural objects and works on paper, Al Salem contemplates the interesting and hard-to-translate phrase ‘amma baad’ – an expression found in formal Arabic correspondence between the initial greetings and the main body of text. Playing with scale and materials, the artist takes a philosophical approach to this phrase, considering the transitional space it occupies in the present, and its relation to what precedes and follows, inviting us to re-consider our own perception of time and space.
Nasser Al Salem (b. 1984, Mecca) lives and work in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Al Salem was an artist-in-residence at Delfina Foundation in 2014 and 2018.
Exhibition curated by Maya El Khalil.
Details
Tue 2 July–Sat 10 Aug 2019
11.00am–6.00pm
Mon-Sat
Free Entry
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Delfina Foundation
29-31 Catherine Place
London
SW1E 6DY
www.delfinafoundatiom.com
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