Exhibition
Limelight: Ibrahim El-Salahi - Haraza
28 Apr 2015 – 31 May 2015
Regular hours
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
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Address
- Hastings Contemporary
- Rock-a-nore Road
- Hastings
England - TN34 3DW
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Hastings and St Leonards are served by the Stagecoach bus company, who run regular services from nearby towns and villages.
- There are regular train services that run from London Victoria and London Charing Cross to Hastings. Direct trains to Hastings from Brighton and Ashford International run twice an hour.
This exhibition of works by Ibrahim El-Salahi reflects his fascination with the Haraza tree, native to Sudan, which has peculiar and inspirational characteristics.
About
This exhibition of works by Ibrahim El-Salahi reflects his fascination with the Haraz tree, native to Sudan, which has peculiar and inspirational characteristics.
El-Salahi himself is also native to Sudan. He is one of the pioneers of the Sudanese and African art movements. In 1954, he left Sudan on a Government Scholarship to study at the Slade School of Fine Art in London where he was inspired by Western Modernism.
Returning to Sudan to teach, Salahi was held as a political prisoner in the mid 1970’s, after which he left Sudan. He now lives in Oxford. Throughout his career, Salahi has held influential positions as a cultural figure, advising governments and the Arab world on cultural policies.
The series inspired by the Haraz tree is an ongoing investigation of the tree / body metaphor, a link between heaven and earth, creator and created.
Speaking about when the tree blooms, El-Salahi says,‘This is a definitive statement. Like saying ‘I am me! I am an individual! I do not follow what everyone is doing! When everyone is going to be green, let them be green. I am not! It’s individuality. I love that very much.’
