“Horizons” is an exhibition by artist Asma M’Naouar, exploring concepts such as movement, materialism and emotion in her works where she reflects on the complexities of the inner world and the outer world through her paintings. Captured by abstract and gestural paintings, her works are deep with allegories of emotions and of time.
Asma M’Naouar’s practice departs from the tradition of easel painting and oil techniques, as she expands upon anthropological perspectives on the memory and trace. Primarily concerned withlight, color and space, M’Naouar’s work represents an attempt to transcend both the material and the surface.
“Time is an indiscernible concept, as it is a rapid passage, and according to Saint Augustine, time is a permanent movement, one part of which advances first, followed by another part, without the two parts being able to exist together. On the other hand, memory possesses that alchemy that allows us to collect in our inner world the time that we could not represent in theexternal world. And it is what Asma M’Naouar does, who draws us into this central meaning, through various phases and representations of the shape of the trace as a movement,” writes Amor Ghedamsi in his essay of the works of Asma MNaouoar.
“What does Abstraction mean? Everything is natural, the surfaces intertwine and intersect in the light for an inner/outer representation that nature always ends up taking over.”
Asma M’Naouar
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