Mohammed Sami approaches painting as an allegorical representation of the striking image of conflict and violence. His paintings explore belated memories triggered by common everyday objects from when he immigrated to Sweden from his native Iraq.

2024年7月10日 · Mohammed Sami was born in Baghdad in 1984, and lives and works in London. Across the breadth of his work, Mohammed Sami has focused consistently on the relationship between contemporary painting and episodic memory.

2024年3月23日 · Mohammed Sami’s poignant and evocative paintings are an exploration of memory, and its vulnerability to time. Absent of people, the settings and quotidian objects in his works are nevertheless permeated with the trace of human presence; while evidence of turmoil or trauma is never directly referenced, obscure and haunting narratives are conveyed.

2023年5月30日 · Mohammed Sami, a Former Propaganda Painter, Creates Haunting Interiors That Hover Between Abstraction and Figuration

2023年10月28日 · Luhring Augustine is proud to present Muzzle of Time, Mohammed Sami’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and his first in the United States. On view in our Chelsea location from September 8 through October 28, the show will feature new and recent paintings by the Iraqi-born, London-based artist.

2023年1月27日 · Mohammed Sami’s (b.1984, Baghdad, Iraq) first institutional solo show in the UK will continue his long-standing exploration of memory in relation to time a...

Mohammed Sami (b. 1984 in Baghdad; lives and works in London) paints landscapes, still lifes, personal belongings, interiors, and the urban environment, but the human figure remains absent of his compositions. If the body does appear, it surfaces as a shadow, wrapped in cloth, or in the form of a statue.

Mohammed Sami’s first institutional solo show, “The Point 0,” running throughout the year at Camden Art Centre, London, followed by the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, delivers those requirements more persuasively than any painter emerging in recent years.

2022年5月8日 · Mostly large-format and acrylic on linen, Mohammed Sami’s paintings depict glimpses of empty, built environments and interior still-lives that – while at first appearing mundane – carry a weight of autobiographical references and affective meaning.

2023年10月2日 · When US bombs began raining down on Baghdad in 2003, the Iraqi painter Mohammed Sami (b1984) was at home with his parents and nine siblings, fearing for his life. The “shock and awe” bombardment, which signalled the start of the US-led invasion of his home country, is alluded to in One Thousand and One Nights (2022), a monumental skyscape ...