On the occasion of the exhibition Pain Relief Drawings with Ibrahim El-Salahi , Cassius Fadlabi gives the lecture El-Salahi and I.
Location: Tegnerforbundet
Time: Thursday 30 June at 5.30 pm
The event is free, open to everyone and requires no registration. The lecture is held in English.
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El-Salahi and I.
A lecture on Ibrahim El-Salahi's influence on contemporary Sudanese artists.
Fadlabi shares his personal story of how he discovered El-Salahi's art, and gives some insight into the circumstances he thinks shaped them both. Fadlabi will also talk about the questions the intellectuals faced during Sudan's postcolonialism. How did artists like El-Salahi relate to these? And how did this affect new generations?
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About Cassius Fadlabi
Norwegian-Sudanese Cassius Fadlabi (b. 1975) lives and works in Oslo. He is a graduate of the Oslo Academy of the Arts (KHiO), Department of the Academy of Fine Arts, Al-Neelain University and the Sudan University of Science and Technology in Khartoum. Fadlabi works with painting, text and performance and also runs the exhibition space Khartoum Contemporary Art Center in Oslo together with Karin Erixon. He has exhibited in a number of places internationally, mainly in Europe, the United States and the Middle East.
Fadlabi's studies of art from different corners of the world have made him what he is today: an international artist, but still with strong roots in Sudan. Fadlabi grew up in Khartoum in Sudan, and came to Norway in 2003 as a political refugee. He has since many years left his mark on the Norwegian art scene.
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Photo: Cassius Fadlabi (left) and Ibrahim El-Salahi (right).
