Ibrahim El-Salahi

Ibrahim El-Salahi (born 1930) is a Sudanese painter and former diplomat. Quotes Drawing for me is a kind of meditation My work often reflects my resources and circumstances alongside my thoughts, dreams and memories The audience completes the artwork I am not asking people to consider my suffering or endurance, just the imagery that comes out of it Ibrahim El-Salahi – interview: ‘Drawing for me is a kind of meditation’ 26 June 2019 Working in a democracy is a lasting experience; working under a dictatorship is an incentive for doing something I believe in the fact that the message from the artist to the public is to let them think and develop their own idea about the work Someday, sooner or later, people will rise against tyranny The government, until now, has no interest at all in culture or heritage except as far as it concerns tourism, not aesthetics My work, no matter how different it is, is still me When the work is finished you can interpret it the way you want, it’s a free world If you are limiting yourself to what you know and use it to the maximum extent, then you will be rewarded with something else Art in Context Africa, Part V: Ibrahim El-Salahi 28 July 2015 Everyone is in travel continuously throughout time. I am one of them I’m very much touched by the people who have not, the have nots I want the world that’s seeing to be heard, and the one that’s to be heard to be seen I believe the future is only a mirror that reflects to you what is within yourself, and takes you to yourself to start to mediate Ibrahim El-Salahi in Doha 31 October 2012 I have arrived at the conclusion that the work of art is but a springboard for the individual intellect, acting as a mirror reflecting our desires and ambitions Sudanese artist’s works to go on show at Katara 23 September 2012 The work is alive and it has a kind of potential of its own. Once you put it there and you give it all that you have, then it works fine I never believe art as art for art’s sake Ibrahim El-Salahi: Art As a Spiritual Means of Meditation 13 May 2019 External links Category:Painters from Sudan Category:1930 births Category:Living people Category:Diplomats