Untitled (from the Urban Witness series)

Details

Halim Al-Karim (Iraqi, b. 1963)
Untitled (from the Urban Witness series)
signed in Arabic (on a label affixed to the reverse)
lambda print, in three parts
each: 54 3/8 x 39 3/8in. (138 x 100cm.);
overall: 54 3/8 x 118 1/8in. (138 x 300cm.)
Executed in 2002, this work is number two from an edition of three plus two artist's proofs (3)

Provenance

XVA Gallery, Dubai.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

XVA Gallery (ed.), Halim Al Karim: Photographic Archive, Dubai undated (another from the edition illustrated in colour, unpaged).
H. Amirsadeghi, S. Mikdadi, N. Shabout (eds.), New Vision Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, London 2009 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 184).

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Lot Essay

'The concept of my work is the future mentality of the urban society. I deal with the ongoing and unresolved issues of the urban society. All that is done by trying to avoid the affect of contemporary elements of brain wash. My artwork create visions of the violence to be absent from the urban society. By using out of focus technique and covering my images with silk, uncertainty of time and place in the subject of my photography, which are the hallmarks of my art, are created'
(Halim Al-Karim).

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