Salah Elmur: The Land of the Sun

 
February 4 – May 3, 2025
 
Salah Elmur, above all, is a painter of people emerging from his own history and childhood. Through recurring figures of peasants, fishermen, and laborers inhabiting a pastoral world, he creates a portrait that is simultaneously autobiographical and collective, while exceeding national boundaries—depicting a community both real and imagined. While Sudan predominates, it is the biographical triangle of Sudan, Kenya, and Egypt that imbues his paintings with cosmopolitanism and even a certain Pan-Africanism.
 
Excerpted text written by Morad Montazami
 
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Salah Elmur es, ante todo, el pintor de un pueblo surgido de su propia historia e infancia. A través de sus personajes de campesinos, pescadores y obreros que habitan un universo pastoral, consigue crear un retrato tanto autobiográfico como colectivo, pero también transnacional, de este pueblo real e imaginado. Si bien es Sudán que predomina, es un triángulo biográfico (Sudán, Kenia, Egipto) el que dota a su pintura de un cosmopolitismo e incluso de cierto panafricanismo.
 
Extracto de texto escrito por Morad Montazami
 
[Salah Elmur, Helloub Wall, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim.]
 
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