Tunnel

2020

Tamara Al Samerraei (b. 1978) Follow artist

acrylic on canvas

21 x 26.5 cm

Estimate: $2,400 - $5,000

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Donated by the artist

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Excellent

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Location

Beirut, Lebanon

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ABOUT Tamara Al Samerraei

Born in Kuwait and living in Beirut, Tamara Alsamerraei draws on visual materials, such as photos and film stills, of familiar scenes, objects and figures in her work, paring them down to their bare essence. Alsamerraei gained a BA in Fine Arts from the Lebanese American University in Beirut in 2002 and completed the inaugural year of the...

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About this artwork

Glimpses, traces and shadows suggest the uneasy presence of an invisible observer lurking within as well as outside the frame. Toying between the perspective of the adolescent and the adult, struggling to reconstruct an elusive past and memory of the present. Her work speaks of family, friendship and loss, of primal fears and unspoken tragedies, and ultimately of a dark playfulness that diffuses melancholy.

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