Mashrabia Gallery is delighted to announce its first participation in 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London, with a solo booth presentation of new artworks by the Sudanese artist Salah El-Mur. Mashrabia's booth is located in the west wing, stand number G1C. The fair opens on Thursday, 6 October, and runs until Sunday, 9 October 2016.
Born in Sudan, Cairo-based artist Salah El-Mur spent years travelling and living across East Africa and the Middle East. Floating between different geographical places and nationalities, El-Mur has a rich and diverse background while maintaining a distinctive and peculiar Sudanese identity to the extent of becoming a flagship of Sudanese art. His paintings portray a variety of heterogeneous tradition, folklore, vernacular of people and environments yet translated in a powerful contemporary visual language. El-Mur deliberately ignores the logics of the relationship between elements. Thus, components are decontextualized and appear recombined together in a spontaneous family gathering. The plain aesthetic combines archaic traditions and visionary language. In this sense, personal memories interact with survivals from the past, creating artworks that unfold as relics of a suspended present as much as documents of a recurrent social phenomenon integrated into social life.
Born in Sudan, Cairo-based artist Salah El-Mur spent years travelling and living across East Africa and the Middle East. Floating between different geographical places and nationalities, El-Mur has a rich and diverse background while maintaining a distinctive and peculiar Sudanese identity to the extent of becoming a flagship of Sudanese art. His paintings portray a variety of heterogeneous tradition, folklore, vernacular of people and environments yet translated in a powerful contemporary visual language. El-Mur deliberately ignores the logics of the relationship between elements. Thus, components are decontextualized and appear recombined together in a spontaneous family gathering. The plain aesthetic combines archaic traditions and visionary language. In this sense, personal memories interact with survivals from the past, creating artworks that unfold as relics of a suspended present as much as documents of a recurrent social phenomenon integrated into social life.