Bringing together paintings, archival photographs, sketches and ephemera produced after 2018, this exhibition offers an immersive encounter with Salah Elmur’s world, “one where memory, landscape and identity merge and ripple through time” as the Jameel puts it.
Through paintings that intertwine memory and myth, Elmur reflects on his upbringing near the Blue Nile. These build upon the photographic legacy of his family’s Studio Kamal in Khartoum; Elmur repurposes archival images, offering subjects who are captured twice, once through film and again in painting, a new way of being seen.
Curated by Zain Al Saie and Qutouf Elobaid.
To 14 March.
Image: Salah Elmur, Fire Behind the Mountain (2025)
