Salah Elmur
Reforma

"The walls," writes the Sudanese Salah Elmur (Khartoum, 1966), "are the main witnesses of both the purest happiness and the apparent and hidden sadness."

 

In his most recent artistic production, these mud and fired brick walls house within them eroticism and mourning, while on the outside they serve as a canvas for protest. They also provide shade for fishermen or street artists, as seen in The Land of the Sun, the artist's first exhibition in Latin America, which opens this Tuesday at the Mariane Ibrahim gallery.

 

"This exhibition is about my people because Sudan is a sunny, hot country. So, people are always looking for shade, whether inside the houses or outside next to the walls," he described on Monday during a tour of the exhibition, framed within Art Week.