Imitation Dreams
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“Oculus of The Body” by Salma Ahmad Caller. Mixed Media Watercolor Collage, Graphite, Indian ink, and Gold pigment,
76.5 x 55.5 cm, 2018
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About the Author
Marie Conlan is a poet living and writing in Colorado. She was named a finalist for the Noemi Press Book Award in 2017 & 2018, an Airlie Press Finalist in 2018, and a Metatron Finalist for the Rising Authors Award in 2018. Her work has appeared most recently in Bombay Gin, Metatron, Pidgeonhole, and field magazine.
Marie Conlan is a poet living and writing in Colorado. She was named a finalist for the Noemi Press Book Award in 2017 & 2018, an Airlie Press Finalist in 2018, and a Metatron Finalist for the Rising Authors Award in 2018. Her work has appeared most recently in Bombay Gin, Metatron, Pidgeonhole, and field magazine.
About the Artist
Salma Ahmad Caller is an Egyptian/British artist who was born in Iraq and grew up in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. She now lives in the UK. Salma’s art practice involves creating an imagery of the narratives of body that have shaped her own body and identity across profound cultural divides. Her work is strongly visual but also incorporates text and sound works. It is an investigation of the painful and contradictory mythologies surrounding the female body, processes of exoticization, and the legacy of colonialism as a cross-generational transmission of ideas, traumas, bodies and misconceptions.
Her art practice is informed by a Masters in Art History and Theory, having studied medicine, and teaching cross-cultural perspectives at Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. Learn more about the artist here https://www.salmaahmadcaller.com/
Featured artwork: “Oculus of The Body”, Mixed Media Watercolor Collage, Graphite, Indian ink, and Gold pigment, 76.5 x 55.5 cm, 2018.
The piece was shown at Reading Contemporary Arts Fair 2018
Salma Ahmad Caller is an Egyptian/British artist who was born in Iraq and grew up in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. She now lives in the UK. Salma’s art practice involves creating an imagery of the narratives of body that have shaped her own body and identity across profound cultural divides. Her work is strongly visual but also incorporates text and sound works. It is an investigation of the painful and contradictory mythologies surrounding the female body, processes of exoticization, and the legacy of colonialism as a cross-generational transmission of ideas, traumas, bodies and misconceptions.
Her art practice is informed by a Masters in Art History and Theory, having studied medicine, and teaching cross-cultural perspectives at Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. Learn more about the artist here https://www.salmaahmadcaller.com/
Featured artwork: “Oculus of The Body”, Mixed Media Watercolor Collage, Graphite, Indian ink, and Gold pigment, 76.5 x 55.5 cm, 2018.
The piece was shown at Reading Contemporary Arts Fair 2018
