Salah El Mur, Infiltrator Grasshopper, 2016. Acrylic on canvas 100 x 100 cm. © Copyright the artist.
Salah El Mur
Born in 1966
Lives & works in Cairo, Egypt
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Presentation of the artist
Born in Sudan, Cairo-based artist Salah El Mur spent years travelling and living across East Africa and the Middle East.
Floating between different geographical places and nationalities, El Mur has a rich and diverse background while maintaining a distinctive and peculiar Sudanese identity to the extent of becoming a flagship of Sudanese art.
His paintings portray a variety of heterogeneous tradition, folklore, vernacular of people and environments yet translated in a powerful contemporary visual language. El Mur deliberately ignores the logics of the relationship between elements. Thus, components are decontextualized and appear recombined together in a spontaneous family gathering.
The plain aesthetic combines archaic traditions and visionary language. In this sense, personal memories interact with survivals from the past, creating artworks that unfold as relics of a suspended present as much as documents of a recurrent social phenomenon integrated into social life.
Nationality : Sudan
In connection with
Mashrabia Gallery, Cairo - Egypt
Gallery MOMO, Cape Town - South Africa
Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi - Kenya
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Born in Karthoum, Sudan
Education
1989
College of Fine and Applied Arts, Sudan University
Solo exhibitions & presentations
2019
Photos of a Cotton Company’s Workers , Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt
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2016
Solo exhibitions in Kenya, Egypt, India, Uganda, Usa, African Culture center in Washignton Dc - 2011- 2016
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2015
The last of Domestic Rituals, Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt
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2013
Eyes Stream, Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt
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2011
Solo exhibitions in Kenya, Egypt, India, Uganda, Usa, African Culture center in Washignton Dc
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2011
Still there, Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt
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2009
Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt
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2007
Modern Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE
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2006
Sudanese National Museum, Khartoum, Sudan
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2004
Tulifanya Art Gallery, Kampala, Uganda
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2002
French Cultural Centre, Khartoum, Sudan
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2000
Juliana Art Gallery, Kampala, Uganda
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1998
College of Fine & Applied arts, Khartoum, Sudan
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Group exhibitions & fairs
2004
British National Museum, London, UK
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2004
Children Book Illustration, Institute Du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
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2001
The German Cultural Centre, Khartoum, Sudan
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2000
Mezaluna Art de Afrique, Arusha, Tanzania
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2000
Tulifanya Gallery, Kampala, Uganda
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1999
Sudanese & Canadian Artist Moose Jaw, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Canada
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1998
Bangladesh International Art Biennial, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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1998
Agha Khan Cutural Center, Stone Town, Zanzibar
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1997
Contemporary Artist from Sudan at Masai Camp, Arusha, Tanzania
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1997
Sharjah Contemporary Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
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1996
City Theatre Hall, Beirut, Lebanon
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1996
Shibraen Art Center, Khartoum, Sudan
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1994
Goethe Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
