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Basmah Felemban, Fantasies of the End, 2024

Basmah Felemban Saudi, b. 1993

Fantasies of the End, 2024
Print transfer, natural pigment gouache, ballpen on gessoed plywood
62 1/4 x 86 5/8 in
158.0 x 220.0 cm
The grid underlies and informs much of Felemban’s work, both conceptually and formally. It serves as a foundation and system of organization to define structures and proportions. More than a...
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The grid underlies and informs much of Felemban’s work, both conceptually and formally. It serves as a foundation and system of organization to define structures and proportions. More than a tool for composition and aesthetic, the grid becomes a locus of a complex web of relations. A theory that creates logic and rhythm, encoded symbols of divinity. A sublime geometry inspired by God's creation and existing in nature.

In Fantasies of the End, Felemban looks at Islamic architecture as mirroring divine imaginaries: ornate visions of the end times, detailed descriptions of purgatory, the intermediate states between life and heaven. Here, she draws from Ibn al-'Arabi's diagram of "Plain of Assembly" (Ard al-Hashr) on the Day of Judgment, from the autograph manuscript of Futuhat al-Makkiyya, ca. 1238.
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06 March — 13 June 2024 - Consecrated NetworksSolo exhibition by Basmah Felemban
Jeddah, KSA
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