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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Nasser Almulhim, “Beyond the Illusion” , 2021

Nasser Almulhim Saudi Arabian, b. 1988

“Beyond the Illusion” , 2021
Acrylic, Oil, Gouache, Cardboard & Fabric on Canvas.
229 x 195 cm
90 1/8 x 76 3/4 in
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Shadow Work a solo exhibition of Saudi Arabian abstract painter, Nasser Almulhim.

Shadow Work comprises a selection of 10 acrylic on canvas works in both large and small scale, divided into two sections, which place the artworks into dialogue with one another. Almulhim understands these works on canvas as the materialisation and negotiation of the thoughts and emotions that pass through his mind, particularly relating to personal struggles with depression. One group of works offer up a feeling of weightlessness and comprise pared-back, minimalist compositions while the other is charged and chaotic; an amalgamation of the fleeting sources of inspiration that the artist encounters in his daily life absorbed from local architecture, nature, light as well as intimate spaces in the home.

 Almulhim approached painting as a mode of healing from mental trauma in his youth. Embarking upon a journey to heal the mind, Almulhim explored and drew from various schools of thought that span Eastern mysticism and spiritual practices - from Sufism to Buddhism -, as well as western philosophies and approaches to psychoanalysis particularly the Jungian approach. Almulhim mines the perspectives of Swiss Psychologist Carl Jung, specifically, his reflections on Shadow Work. In The Philosophical Tree (1945), Jung asserts that: ‘One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.’
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