2025
Edition Size: 31 (minus edition number 11)
Sheet Size: 61 x 50 cm
Signed
Condition: Pristine
Digital pigment print with hand-painted detail in acrylic paint on Somerset paper
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Mohammed Sami (b. Baghdad, Iraq, 1984) creates poignant and evocative paintings which explore memory and its vulnerability to time. Sami mines personal experiences from his formative years in Iraq to ground his work, but by embracing ambiguity, he creates a sense of universal familiarity. Negotiating the past through painting, he harnesses the metaphorical potential of different mark-making techniques to interrupt a straightforward narrative reading. Blurred objects often appear as if they are coming apart or moving across the canvas itself, suggesting gaps or slippage of memory. Sami’s compositions unfurl as cryptic vignettes of fragmented scenes, excavated from the past.
