Danko Stjepanovic
Artwork Details:
Artist(s)
Saloua Raouda Choucair
Title
Interform
Date
1960–1962
Medium(s)
Wood
Dimensions/Duration
49 x 12 x 12 cm
Photo Credit
Interform
By the time Saloua Raouda Choucair had stopped painting in the 1960s, her ‘modules’ were ripe for three-dimensional translation. Inspired by the deconstruction and reimagination of Islamic geometric forms, Choucair created Interform (1960–1962), a wooden block carved with curved voids that recalls the skeleton of a high-rise building. The work was followed by a series of what she called ‘sculptural poems’, which pointed to the structural influence of Arabic poetry. ‘I wanted rhythm like the poetic meter, to be at once more independent and interlinked,’ she once noted.
*Currently exhibited at Aranya Art Center
