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Lot 102

Abdelnasser Gharem
(Saudi Arabia, born 1973)
Siraat (The Path)

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Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art

24 November 2020, 15:00 GMT

London, New Bond Street

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Abdelnasser Gharem (Saudi Arabia, born 1973)

Siraat (The Path)
projection on UV cured virtu digital print on white aluminium
signed, dated, numbered "4/6" and titled on the verso, number 4 from an edition of 6, executed in 2007
70 x 120cm (27 9/16 x 47 1/4in).

Footnotes

Provenance:
Property from a private collection, London
Acquired directly from Edge of Arabia, London, 2009

Note:
Please note that this work is accompanied by a limited edition CD

Exhibited:
Venice, Palazzo Polignac, 53rd Venice Biennale, 2009

Much of Gharem's art is performance based, captured in photographs and video, and focuses on our relationship to and trust in physical structures and the natural environment. The Path, or Siraat, commemorates a tragic event that occurred in 1982, when a group of villagers took shelter from an approaching flood on a concrete bridge spanning a river in southwest Saudi Arabia, where heavy rains are often commonplace. Everyone was swept away and most were killed by the deluge. A new road was built nearby but the old one on either side of the washed away bridge remained. On the section of road leading up to the bridge, Gharem and a crew of assistants spray-painted over and over again the word siraat, which means both a literal path and also a spiritual one (e.g., the straight path that leads to Paradise). The repetition of this single word on the roadway becomes a visual chant—a reminder of how we choose our own paths, and a remembrance of the flood victims, who, having chosen the apparent safety of higher ground, lost their lives. This notion of individual choice when it comes to life's pathways is endemic in Gharem's work.

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Please note the present work was conceived in 2007 and published in 2009. The accompanying CD is number 2 from an edition of six

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