THK Gallery

On Exhibition

• Abdus Salaam 'The Space Between' -

  Abdus Salaam 'The Space Between'

  About Abdus Salaam
  
  Abdus Salaam is a self-taught multi-disciplinary artist from Cape Town, South Africa. With works rooted in poetry, Salaam reveals a sensitivity to three-dimensional spatial expression and the metaphysical connotations inherent in materials.
  
  Contemporary in his mystic abstraction, his non-representational work calls from a familiar place to a state of peaceful and intensive longing, seeking to inspire a growth of human consciousness. Moving freely between mediums – from sculpture to painting, video, photographic 'light paintings’, poetry, augmented reality, and music – he creates poetic worlds, from the intimate to large-scale installation. While rooted in personal meditation and reflection, his work speaks to the universal human experience.
  
  Salaam’s sculptural works are inspired by the natural changes of stone over time, imagining how water and wind would shape it over the Millenia. This dance of the real and metaphorical is constant throughout his practice.
  
  Salaam’s work looks beyond tropes of identity and outer struggle, instead focusing on unity and on the expansive spiritual inner realities of beauty, peace and striving, as they relate to nature and our shared human experience: sharing the ecstatic love of being alive and being together.