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Baghdad Pavement 2006 “I have a sense of devastation within me. The works I have deal with devastation. ” Rashad Selim “Art has to do with debris, breaking up, assymetry, loss of grammar. “ The layers of this collage include both old manuscripts which he has torn up and debris. Rashad is echoing the break […]
Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East at the British Museum explores the complexity of contemporary Middle Eastern culture from the perspective of the use of calligraphy and text.