Toboggan Lodge, Cornell University
NEW CONVERSATIONS SERIES
The ICM looks forward to your participation in its "New Conversations Series," which will be informal gatherings for reflection on works in progress. No preparation necessary.
Ibrahim Mohammed El-Salahi
ICM's Artist-in-Resident
"Project Memoir"
ICM is currently hosting world-renowned Sudanese modernist painter Ibrahim Mohammed El-Salahi in an artist-in-residency program. While at the ICM, El-Salahi will complete the editing of his memoirs in two languages, English and Arabic, which he began during an earlier residency at Cornell in 2005-2007. He will also finalize a volume of correspondence of over thirteen years with the Sudanese conceptualist and art critic Hassan Musa. The memoirs and the volume of correspondence are due to be published in the coming months. While writing and editing, El-Salahi intends to also work on a new series of paintings inspired by his latest visit to Andalusia, Spain earlier in the summer of this year.
On October 19th, El-Salahi will reflect on the importance of his forthcoming memoir based on his life’s collection of personal diaries. El-Salahi will share in detail his experiences of living in Sudan and being wrongfully imprisoned. On a lighter note he will discuss his education and career as an educator at The School of Fine and Applied Art in Sudan. El-Salahi will also enlighten us with memories of his travels that brought him outside of Sudan as well as the people he has met and the authors he has come to know over the years.
El-Salahi is truly one of the most impressive figures in the field of contemporary African art. He is an artist whose productivity has spanned more than five decades, and a powerful intellectual who remains morally conscientious, socially concerned, and uncompromising in his artistic integrity.
