Photo: Shanavas Jamaluddin
Artwork Details:
Artist(s)
Kamala Ibrahim Ishag
Title
Untitled - four Faces of Eve
Date
2016
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
104.5 x 104.5 x 5 cm
Photo Caption
Untitled - four Faces of Eve
Kamala Ibrahim Ishag, a revolutionary Sudanese artist, was part of the Khartoum school before co-founding the Crystalist group in the 1970s; a conceptual art movement that challenged the prevailing notions of Sudanese tradition established by previous art practices. Ishag's paintings adopt the Crystalist group's unique artistic language— deliberately depicting distorted women's faces in crystalline geometric shapes, reflecting their entrapment within their own destiny.
