Six etchings, five charcoal on paper drawings

Overview

Youssef Abdelké is an internationally acclaimed printmaker and artist. Both his etchings and charcoal drawings are carvings of light from within darkness, representations of silence. While the charcoal still lives depict a commonplace object, the point is 'the emotion the object generates from narrating its lived experience, and the starkly cast grey shadows prevail to best serve their expression'.
To cite the Artist’s own words.

The objects are staged, even though their mise-en-scène is minimal, they trap the light and mirror the artist’s subjectivity. By contrast, his etchings invariably feature three characters, embodying oppression, suffering and insurgency in variations of compositional possibilities.


2011

This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 10