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Abdus Salaam | The Space Between

Past viewing_room
5 May - 30 June 2022
  • Abdus Salaam I The Space Between

  • Following his sold out presentation in the Tomorrows/Today section of the Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2022, we present an extraordinary multidisciplinary presentation across all four gallery levels, with an accompanying exhibition text by Ashraf Jamal.

    • Abdus Salaam Rings We Read II, 2022 120 cm diameter, 2.5 cm depth Cast pigmented UV stabilised epoxy resin sculpture with polyurethane automotive UV clear coat finish
      Abdus Salaam
      Rings We Read II, 2022
      120 cm diameter, 2.5 cm depth
      Cast pigmented UV stabilised epoxy resin sculpture with polyurethane automotive UV clear coat finish
  • "Occasionally one encounters an artist with a consummate and singular vision. In this case that artist is Abdus Salaam.

     

    As adamantine as he is fluid, Salaam understands the irresistible and sublime art of grace. Today, in an age of violence, rage, despair, and anger – an age of nihilism – Salaam restores to us the sanctity of the soul."

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    • Abdus Salaam Ascension, 2019 275 x 137.5 cm Acrylic relief on canvas, mounted on board
      Abdus Salaam
      Ascension, 2019
      275 x 137.5 cm
      Acrylic relief on canvas, mounted on board
    • Abdus Salaam Deep Ocean, 2019 137.5 x 275 cm Acrylic relief on canvas, mounted on board
      Abdus Salaam
      Deep Ocean, 2019
      137.5 x 275 cm
      Acrylic relief on canvas, mounted on board
    • Abdus Salaam Untitled, 2022 120 x 120 x 2.4 cm with a 45 degree bevelled edge all round Oil on Orientated Strand Board
      Abdus Salaam
      Untitled, 2022
      120 x 120 x 2.4 cm with a 45 degree bevelled edge all round
      Oil on Orientated Strand Board
    • Abdus Salaam From me, to You, 2022 219.8 x 93.7 x 80 cm 4.5 mm 304 stainless steel
      Abdus Salaam
      From me, to You, 2022
      219.8 x 93.7 x 80 cm
      4.5 mm 304 stainless steel
  • "We look at Salaam’s films and paintings, his installations, and sense that this is immersive art that is never exploitative. Rather, it is the purity of the artist’s intention that one connects to, the sensation of slipping between worlds – the one apparent, the other unforeseen – in which a folding occurs. Salaam clothes one in grace, becalms our agitated psyches."

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    • Abdus Salaam Untitled III, 2022 220 x 120 cm with a 45 degree bevelled edge all round Oil on aluminium on Orientated Strand Board
      Abdus Salaam
      Untitled III, 2022
      220 x 120 cm with a 45 degree bevelled edge all round
      Oil on aluminium on Orientated Strand Board
    • Abdus Salaam Untitled I, 2022 120 x 60 cm with a 45 degree bevelled edge all round Oil on aluminium on Orientated Strand Board
      Abdus Salaam
      Untitled I, 2022
      120 x 60 cm with a 45 degree bevelled edge all round
      Oil on aluminium on Orientated Strand Board
    • Abdus Salaam Untitled II, 2022 120 x 120 cm with a 45 degree bevelled edge all round Oil on aluminium on Orientated Strand Board
      Abdus Salaam
      Untitled II, 2022
      120 x 120 cm with a 45 degree bevelled edge all round
      Oil on aluminium on Orientated Strand Board
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  • "Penumbral is an apt descriptor – ‘the partially shaded out region of the shadow cast by an opaque object’. This because Salaam is fascinated by the obscurity of light and shade, the opacity of things – the auratic. In his world, nothing is ever parsed easily. Light and dark form a spectrum, a gradation in a blur. This is because illumination, or revelation, is produced in increments. We espy the truth, linger momentarily therein, know its effervescence."

    • Abdus Salaam Rages On / Magnitude and Movement, 2022 Dimensions variable Monochrome 4K Video, HEVC format, run time: 9:21:04:00 continuous Edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof
      Abdus Salaam
      Rages On / Magnitude and Movement, 2022
      Dimensions variable
      Monochrome 4K Video, HEVC format, run time: 9:21:04:00 continuous
      Edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof
    • Abdus Salaam Untitled 1 - 3, 2021 165 x 51.7 cm Photographic darkroom light painting, pigment printed on Hahnemuhle Photorag, Hahnemuhle varnish, mounted on Dibond, framed in aluminium. Edition of 1 plus 1 artist's proof
      Abdus Salaam
      Untitled 1 - 3, 2021
      165 x 51.7 cm
      Photographic darkroom light painting, pigment printed on Hahnemuhle Photorag, Hahnemuhle varnish, mounted on Dibond, framed in aluminium.
      Edition of 1 plus 1 artist's proof
    • Abdus Salaam Falls of Abundance, 2021 21.1 x 14.9 cm Printed on hahnemuhle photorag and mounted on Dibond, framed in aluminium, Hahnemuhle varnish. Sculpted polymer clay cup painted with oil paint on sculpted marble floating shelf. Edition of 1 plus 1 artist's proof
      Abdus Salaam
      Falls of Abundance, 2021
      21.1 x 14.9 cm
      Printed on hahnemuhle photorag and mounted on Dibond, framed in aluminium, Hahnemuhle varnish.

      Sculpted polymer clay cup painted with oil paint on sculpted marble floating shelf.
      Edition of 1 plus 1 artist's proof
    • Abdus Salaam Transcendent, 2022 115 cm diameter, 12 mm thick, 45 degree bevelled edge all round Pure platinum on Orientated Strand Board
      Abdus Salaam
      Transcendent, 2022
      115 cm diameter, 12 mm thick, 45 degree bevelled edge all round
      Pure platinum on Orientated Strand Board
  • "Absolutes poison the complexity of being and knowing. Ignorance is dangerous too. A meme, attributed to Franz Kafka, reads: ‘It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves’. Salaam’s creative inquiry is never interested in certainties, but in synergies – twinned wave formations, radial quakes, febrile gradations, plunging banks of light and shade that evoke waterfalls. Everything is tremulous in Salaam’s world, everything alive."

    • Abdus Salaam Untitled, 2021 200 x 57 cm Photographic darkroom light painting, pigment printed on Hahnemuhle German etching. Hahnemuhle varnish mounted on Dibond, framed in alumium. Edition of 1 plus 1 artist's proof
      Abdus Salaam
      Untitled, 2021
      200 x 57 cm
      Photographic darkroom light painting, pigment printed on Hahnemuhle German etching. Hahnemuhle varnish mounted on Dibond, framed in alumium.
      Edition of 1 plus 1 artist's proof
    • Abdus Salaam The Falls, 2021 265 x 48 cm Acrylic on board. Framed.
      Abdus Salaam
      The Falls, 2021
      265 x 48 cm
      Acrylic on board. Framed.
    • Abdus Salaam The Closer We Become, 2021 200 x 57.04 cm 4mm Museum glass, aluminium, fibreglass, framed in aluminium
      Abdus Salaam
      The Closer We Become, 2021
      200 x 57.04 cm
      4mm Museum glass, aluminium, fibreglass, framed in aluminium
    • Abdus Salaam Going Home, 2021 98.4 x 56.9 cm Video work, screen included, framed in aluminium. Specifications: 4k (3840 x 2160 pixels) 16:9 aspect ratio, H.265 codec, run time 9:00:00:00, portrait orientation. Edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof
      Abdus Salaam
      Going Home, 2021
      98.4 x 56.9 cm
      Video work, screen included, framed in aluminium.
      Specifications: 4k (3840 x 2160 pixels) 16:9 aspect ratio, H.265 codec, run time 9:00:00:00, portrait orientation.
      Edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof
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    • Abdus Salaam Untitled IV, 2022 120 cm diameter Oil on aluminium on Orientated Strand Board
      Abdus Salaam
      Untitled IV, 2022
      120 cm diameter
      Oil on aluminium on Orientated Strand Board
  • "Geometry is a mystery, a thing of beauty. Diagonals, ovoid-circular-triangular forms, contain boundless energy. This because a void – seemingly insubstantial, fathomless – is also a source of great bounty. Nothing can come from nothing, Shakespeare declared, and yet, Salaam tells us that something can – and does."

     

       - Exhibition text by Ashraf Jamal         

    • Abdus Salaam Untitled, 2022 Zimbabwean Howlite gemstone, platinum
      Abdus Salaam
      Untitled, 2022
      Zimbabwean Howlite gemstone, platinum
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    • Abdus Salaam Deep Ocean, 2022 Dimensions variable Monochrome 4K Video, Apple Prores 422 HQ .MOV format, run time: continuous. Original score (continuous) uncompressed 48khz 24 bit .wav format. Edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof
      Abdus Salaam
      Deep Ocean, 2022
      Dimensions variable
      Monochrome 4K Video, Apple Prores 422 HQ .MOV format, run time: continuous. Original score (continuous) uncompressed 48khz 24 bit .wav format.
      Edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof
  • About Abdus Salaam

    About Abdus Salaam

    Abdus Salaam is a self-taught multi-disciplinary artist from Cape Town, South Africa. Rooted in poetry, Salaam's considered use of light and dark reveals a sensitivity to three-dimensional spatial expression, and the metaphysical connotations inherent in materials.

     

    Contemporary in his theosophical minimalism, he is focused on the essential principles of existence, both seen and unseen. Presenting a bridge between the natural and spiritual worlds, his work is both a personal journey and a meditation on the nature of existence. Moving freely between mediums – from   8 x 10 bellows photography, 'light painting', video, augmented reality, music and painting – he creates poetic worlds, from the intimate to large scale installations.

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  • Press

    • Abdus Salaam | SABC Weekend Live Interview: ICTAF 2022
      Press

      Abdus Salaam | SABC Weekend Live Interview: ICTAF 2022

      February 19, 2022
      An SABC Weekend Live interview with THK artist Abdus Salaam, on the 2022 edition of the Investec Cape Town art fair. Watch the full interview here .
    • Abdus Salaam | SABC Weekend Live Interview: ICTAF online 2021
      Press

      Abdus Salaam | SABC Weekend Live Interview: ICTAF online 2021

      September 19, 2021
      An SABC Weekend Live interview with Investec Cape Town Art Fair Director Laura Vinceti and THK artist Abdus Salaam,on the 2021 online version of the Investec Cape Town art fair....
    • Abdus Salaam | Falls of Abundance | Press Release
      Press

      Abdus Salaam | Falls of Abundance | Press Release

      June 9, 2021
      THK Gallery is proud to announce representation of Abdus Salaam and to present his first exhibition at THK Gallery, Falls of Abundance . Read the full Press Release here .
    • VISI | Abdus Salaam
      Press

      VISI | Abdus Salaam

      June 1, 2021
      An article on artist Abdus Salaam, featured in the June | July issue of VISI Magazine. Read the full piece here .
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