Hamra Abbas
Kuwait
 

Hamra Abbas has a versatile artistic practice that straddles a wide range of media, from paper collage and painting to ephemeral soft plasticine sculpture and video.

Hamra Abbas

4 May - 5 June 2015

Hamra Abbas has a versatile artistic practice that straddles a wide range of media, from paper collage and painting to ephemeral soft plasticine sculpture and video. Her works often take a humorous look towards widely accepted traditions, appropriating culturally loaded imagery and religious iconography and transforming them into new works that are experienced in space and time.

Abbas takes various cultural references and recontextualises them using appropriated artistic techniques. For her residency she is learning the courtly Chinese painting style of Gongbi and conducting portrait studies of her various interactions of people in the lively inner city suburb of Little India in Singapore.

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Hamra Abbas, 4 May 2015 – 5 June 2015, Courtesy the artist.
Hamra Abbas, 4 May 2015 – 5 June 2015, Courtesy the artist.
Hamra Abbas, 4 May 2015 – 5 June 2015, Courtesy the artist.
Hamra Abbas, 4 May 2015 – 5 June 2015, Courtesy the artist.
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Hamra Abbas
Hamra Abbas
Artist-in-Residence
Kuwait, United States

Hamra Abbas is an artist. Her practice crosses a wide range of media, appropriating and transforming culturally loaded imagery, iconography, and traditional motifs and styles to raise questions of conflict within society. Between May and June 2015, Abbas was Artist-in-Residence at NTU CCA Singapore. During her residency, Abbas explored the complex intertwining of histories, class, race, and culture that defines Singapore, working with the courtly Chinese painting style of Gongbi to address the story of Indian migration in Singapore.