DUBAI: Here are some highlights from Gypsum Gallery’s solo booth by Tamara Al-Samerraei, on show at London’s Frieze Art Fair until Oct. 6.
‘Jungle’ (2019)
Kuwait-born, Beirut-based painter Tamara Al-Samerraei is representing Cairo-based Gypsum Gallery at London’s prestigious art fair. Al-Samerraei’s work is, the gallery says, “often triggered by photographs from her personal archive and from the public domain.” Inspiration can come from film stills, Internet searches, or found photographs.
‘Living Room II’ (2016)
Al-Samerraei “depicts indoor and outdoor spaces, objects, and figures that are stripped of everything except their bare essence,” Gypsum’s press release for Frieze states. “Her details are vague, and pigments take on the appearance of discoloration — or the inverse of it.”
‘Night Shrub’ (2018)
This painting from last year is typical of Al-Samerraei’s tendency to imply “outside interference from the margin of the canvas into the frame,” the statement explains. “Like a spectral vision, we register a palpable presence even when we can’t physically see it.”
