Saeed Almadani

Drawing on elements of conceptual, minimalist, and abstract strategies, Between Here and Home explores the relationship between language, place and material form; and the process of writing and non-representational art in articulating attachments and in (de)constructing identities. 

The work recognizes otherness when away from a known, acknowledgeable and understood environment - 'home', and aims to make sense of both connections to surroundings and the nearness of things, in order to understand one’s place and cultural embeddedness at a specific point in time. 

I’ve been investigating these notions in various ways; treating gestural writing as image; objects as the materialization of meaning; and print in an expanded form as a vehicle for conceptual enquiry around multiplicity, seriality, and the merging of a process of both being and becoming. 

This approach in the work allows me to absorb or reject the influences of spaces governed by the systems of a place, hence highlighting tension, rupture and the effects of displacement.