Ayyam Gallery Dubai DIFC will present Material World, the solo exhibition of Syrian artist Kais Salman. Known for his bold, expressionist explorations of human subjects, Salman is currently gaining the attention of regional art critics and collectors as he challenges notions of beauty and comments on our ever-growing dependence on materialism.
This has been most evident with his highly acclaimed Fashion Series, a daring body of work that is at once provocative and introspective with its jarring portrayals of scantily clad women. The artist’s latest canvases continue to undermine purported social norms, as his disfigured anti-heroines are disrobed, standing vulnerable to the viewer’s penetrating gaze. In these works we find a noticeable departure from earlier paintings, as the background is simplified, Salman’s palette is more subdued and his female protagonists are given robust forms.
