World-renowned artist Ibrahim El-Salahi is considered a great pioneer of international Modernism, linking African, Arabic and European influences in a unique visual language.
Here, Xa Sturgis, Director of the Ashmolean, tells us more about the artist and spotlights his work ‘Pain Relief’, which was created on a pill box and formed a ‘seed’ for a larger piece of work.
Read more: ashmolean.org/article/artists-in-isolation-ibrahim-el-salahi
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Pain Relief, Ibrahim El-Salahi, 2017. Pen and ink on medicine packet. WA2019.131. © Ibrahim El-Salahi. All rights reserved, DACS 2021