A Public Privacy
Emerging GCC artists facing a context where the private dimension is trivialised in public and the public is immortalised in the private arena. Curatorial essay for the show at DUCTAC, Dubai.
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Drawings. 2014
(Detail)
Charcoal and Indian ink
Shamma Al-Amri’s approach to painting reflects on an area of self-determination as it investigates the limits and the possibility of interaction between discipline and the lack thereof.
“Drawings that are carefully constructed and reveal a high level of control … are juxtaposed (to others simply) layered with pure ink blots and ink spills ... The lines between illusion, figuration, fact, abstraction, become blurred.”
© Photo: empty 10, Dubai
Emerging GCC artists facing a context where the private dimension is trivialised in public and the public is immortalised in the private arena. Curatorial essay for the show at DUCTAC, Dubai.