Obsessive Inscriptions IV | art exhibition work | Amman | Jordan | 2022
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Obsessive Inscriptions IV is a set of two drawings created for DAR ART, Jordan’s largest art fair, in its second edition. The drawings are part of a larger line of ink inscriptions art that represents an exploration of the surface space in a manner that veers between constrains of idealized geometrical orders and the beauty of the subtle gestures of imperfection as they emerge from the manual, handwriting process. For Dar Art, each one of the two drawings is based on one repeated line from the following poem in its original Arabic phrasing: ‘Your Remedy is within you, but you do not sense it’ and ‘Your Sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it’. Like all pervious ink inscriptions, and while these drawings are intentionally filled with such well-curated poetic content and extracts from the Arabic literature, the words still merely serve as repeated textural grains for the intricate fabric-like surfaces.
The two drawings were mounted in June, 2022 in DAR ART’s independent artists hall, curated by the Paris-based, Lebanese artist and curator Abed al Kadiri.
The two drawings were mounted in June, 2022 in DAR ART’s independent artists hall, curated by the Paris-based, Lebanese artist and curator Abed al Kadiri.