Crossing 2

Artist

Dimensions

150x150cm

Medium

oil on canvas

Year

2026

SKU PAI2604-SA0503

18,000 AED

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About this artwork

This work navigates the threshold between interior and exterior states, where the figure becomes both subject and passage. The central body is elongated and fluid, its gesture suggesting transformation rather than stillness.
Transparency plays a dual role—revealing and fragmenting—allowing secondary scenes to emerge within the composition, as if memory and reality overlap within the same surface.
The palette is more vivid and structured, with bold contrasts between deep blues, warm ochres, and softened flesh tones, grounding the work in a delicate balance between clarity and dream.
Rather than depicting a transition in space, The Crossing evokes a passage of being—where identity shifts, divides, and quietly re-forms.

About the Artist

Salam Ahmad

Salam Ahmad, trained in Fine Arts in Syria, works through painting as an intimate, emotional language. Her compositions emerge from quiet inner spaces, where feelings take form before they are spoken. The body dissolves into sensation, and color, especially grey, becomes a field of reflection, suspended between presence and absence, fullness and emptiness.

Salam Ahmad