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Reborn Sounds of Childhood Dreams I
1961-1965
Arabic letterforms and mask-like figures gather into a personal language of return.
Artist field note
Ibrahim El-Salahi
Modernism grows from memory, calligraphy and spiritual form.
Appears inAfrica & The African Diaspora
The five in one idea
El-Salahi helped define African modernism as an active synthesis rather than an imported style.