2023 VISUAL CAMPAIGN ARTIST

Each year, Abu Dhabi Art collaborates with artists to create the fair’s visual campaign. The chosen images by the artist are used across the marketing campaign and define the visual identity of the fair each year.

The images for the 2023 campaign are all from different projects by the artist Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim. They reveal his own form of language - inscriptions, lines and abstract forms that are reminiscent of ancient cave drawings - marking time and memory through meditative repetition.

Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim

Emirati artist Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim is part of the UAE's first generation of contemporary artists from the late 1980s, an avant-garde scene that included Hassan Sharif, Abdullah Al Saadi, Hussein Sharif, and Mohammed Kazem. Ibrahim’s work has been inspired by a lifelong relationship with the environment of Khorfakkan, his place of birth, with the Gulf of Oman on one side and the Hajar Mountains on the other. This deep connection to his local environment repeats itself throughout his studio practice, whether through his installations, drawings or objects, and the materials he has worked with for over three decades. His hand made objects are shaped like primitive tools, bones or parts of trees and appear to have been unearthed from some ancient den, rather than handcrafted. His works on paper reveal his own form of language - inscriptions, lines and abstract forms that are reminiscent of ancient cave drawings - marking time and memory through meditative repetition.
Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim is represented by Dubai based Gallery Lawrie Shabibi.