FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT

Throughout the different ages, human thought has been greatly concerned with human and social sciences and anthropology which are concerned mainly with the study of human conduct development until it has become what it is now.

Amal’s Elusive Allegories

Amal Al-Aathem’s exquisitely raw mixed media paintings have a lot to say — and yet they speak in riddles, remaining mysterious, and deliberately so. For hers is a milieu of pattern and poetry, symbolism and struggle, individual identity and a complex cultural tradition that both inspires and defines. In her simultaneously rough and sophisticated compositions one encounters expressive abstract gestures that convey powerful emotion, even as this same vigorous abstraction functions as elements of the very landscapes and figures it inhabits and surrounds. In this way, her imagery itself and the specific ways in which it is rendered to the surface both have active roles to play in extending her message of sublimated power and the agitated heart.

A Bridge to the Moon

Are women and the moon still the center of the universe?

Mirror of an Artwork

For al-Aathem, art and dealing with it, is not a luxury. It is rather, an entire life formed inside her imagination to become a fundamental part of herbeing an Arab woman preoccupied with big dreams; the dreams of explicit talks and ecstasy in the context of the Arab cultural act, namely in the Arab Gulf region. This situation challenged al-Aathemto demonstrate a special kind of determination. She had to put her aspirations regarding the components of Arab creativity through a variety of contributions that covered more than one form of art, such as video art, painting, graphics and installation. Nevertheless, we find al-Aathemmoreleaning towards the framed picture that face the public at all times. Here, the artwork produces its own history through the accumulation of viewing it again and again where it is displayed.