Fahar Al-Salih
Fahar Al-Salih

Shelter

2009-present

 

People with a polycultural background know how difficult it is to fill the concept of home with a concrete place. Most of them rather succeed in finding home in certain images, food, or landscapes. In his “Shelter” pictures, Fahar Al-Salih succeeds in subsuming the abstractness of home in a specific motif: the shelter of a hut. This house is not reduced to four walls and a roof but stands as a placeholder for an abstract space in which we feel safe and free at the same time, but which can also trigger unease through its familiarity. 

Shelter

2009-present

 

People with a polycultural background know how difficult it is to fill the concept of home with a concrete place. Most of them rather succeed in finding home in certain images, food, or landscapes. In his “Shelter” pictures, Fahar Al-Salih succeeds in subsuming the abstractness of home in a specific motif: the shelter of a hut. This house is not reduced to four walls and a roof but stands as a placeholder for an abstract space in which we feel safe and free at the same time, but which can also trigger unease through its familiarity.