Thought to Image: Alia Ahmad
Current exhibition
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Following a comprehensive refurbishment by the minimalist architect, John Pawson, Albion Jeune, is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new large-scale paintings by Saudi Arabian painter Alia Ahmad (b. 1996, Riyadh).
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Whilst Ahmad’s considerably scaled work carries approaches to the construction of landscape, a sense of movement across and through, the recent more singular images result in a perhaps more symbolic relation to space. With imagery more autonomous than ever, the paintings betray an artist working to discover, and counter what she has already set in motion. This in turn mimics the construction of the image itself. Ahmad’s, generally one to one scaled constructions, meet a different, more iconic, sense of purpose.
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A singular tree, for instance, provides symbolic context. Unconscious hints at the graphic nature of graffiti provide a crossroad rather that a path to be passed along and through. A restricted, tonal, range of colour, in turn creates a place or identity perhaps now more symbolic than spatial. Underlying reference to reproduction and digital culture suggests a state that can be achieved and brought together perhaps contradictorily through painterly flow. Exceptionally able and prolific, Ahmad’s independent paintings make a place where the desire to speak meets the desire to see.– Sacha Craddock, April 2024
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