Broken

Artist

Dimensions

40×40 cm

Medium

oil on canvas

Year

2026

SKU PAI2604-SA0500-3

2,000 AED

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About this artwork

he figure holds a fractured glass—delicately, almost ceremonially—yet the break is unmistakable. What should contain begins to fail. The gesture remains poised, but the object resists it.
Her expression is distant, nearly indifferent, as if the rupture has already been absorbed. One eye half-closed, the other alert—suggesting a split awareness, a quiet negotiation between what is seen and what is endured.
The surrounding elements—soft fruit forms, muted space—offer a sense of stillness, yet nothing fully resolves. Even the act of holding becomes uncertain: is she preserving what’s left, or simply acknowledging its break?

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