Hiba Kalache
LOT 8
In the sealed obscurity of the brain plants grow, and fish swim, 2023
Ink, oil and oil bar on canvas
65 x 56 x 2 in
Courtesy of the artist and Altman Siegel
Suggested retail value: $18,000
Starting bid: $14,500
About the Artwork
Within her multidisciplinary practice encompassing drawing, painting, and sculptural installation, Hiba Kalache addresses the geopolitics of the Middle East from the perspective of a female body. Kalache’s abstract paintings attempt to depict something of the current moment; they are both an act of protest and an attempt at escape. A voracious reader, Kalache’s paintings often grow out of an exploration of text; her frenetic drawing line can evoke an intuitive writerly gesture. Where her early paintings began as a close translation of religious texts into visual language, more recently the relationship has become increasingly abstract, with Kalache drawing her titles from literary references or poems. Kalache’s canvases, layered with soft washes of acrylic ink and passionate bursts of color, reveal references to landscape or the body; the artist’s fragmented and instinctive gestures recall the splintering of memories over time, leaving traces of emotion untethered to concrete imagery or place. The resulting works, surreal and imagined, exist outside of time and place, even when referring to the abjectness of the physical body and its experiences. Kalache’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Saleh Barakat Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon, and The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut, Lebanon. Group exhibitions include Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France; Villa Romana, Florence, Italy; Beit Beirut Museum and Urban Cultural Center, Beirut, Lebanon; Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA; The Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium; California College of the Arts, San Francisco; and the San José Museum of Art.
HOW TO BID:
Bidding is available from May 19-June 6.
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OR
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