Nasser AlSalem : Amma Qabl
Amid extraordinary megalithic structures, towering rock-carved facades that have stood statuesque-still for more than 5,000 years, Nasser AlSalem’s sculpture is an elegantly simple gesture that spans past and present: a passage-way shaped the calligraphic letter forms that read Amma Qabl (loosely meaning ‘what precedes’). AlSalam, who studied architecture at Um Al-Kora University in Mecca and calligraphy in the Haram Al-Sharif, here combines the two disciplines to create a synthesis of form and language, interior and exterior.
