The Palestinian artist is on show at the Sharjah Art Museum until 7 January. The event brings together almost 180 works, showing geometric bodies, kaleidoscopic landscapes and a play of light and shadow in the form of oil paintings, papier-mâché and digitally designed canvases. The exhibition is organised by Inass Yassin.
"Abstraction has always been part of human culture. Language is an abstraction. We have extracted it from nature and adapted it to our hands and lips. Abstraction, as a word, is equivalent to extraction. In the Arabic dictionary, it says 'the one freed from the meat that covers it'. You extract the essence of something." - Samia Halaby for The National.
Photo: "Rainbow Spirals", (1973). Copyrights Razmig Bedirian / The National.