Shamma Al Amri's 'So To Speak' - in pictures

Shamma Al Amri's latest exhibition at Tashkeel, So To Speak, runs until October 18. Her piece 'Diction' features six pieces of dyed newspaper with the word 'sah' ('correct') cut out by hand, which allows light to pass through. All photos: Tashkeel
Shamma Al Amri's latest exhibition at Tashkeel, So To Speak, runs until October 18. Her piece 'Diction' features six pieces of dyed newspaper with the word 'sah' ('correct') cut out by hand, which allows light to pass through. All photos: Tashkeel
Al Amri's 'Correct' series features calligraphy reed and ink on paper. She says: 'I wanted to perfectly repeat the word on a plain paper with no lines until the ink ran dry, but every ‘sah’ created a different ‘sah’.'
Al Amri's 'Correct' series features calligraphy reed and ink on paper. She says: 'I wanted to perfectly repeat the word on a plain paper with no lines until the ink ran dry, but every ‘sah’ created a different ‘sah’.'
Bending Directions (Abubaker, Abdulrahman) features bent metal rods made by construction workers. Al Amri says that every time they attempted to model the rods into a ‘sah’, the repetition only resulted in the collapse of the 'correctness'.
Bending Directions (Abubaker, Abdulrahman) features bent metal rods made by construction workers. Al Amri says that every time they attempted to model the rods into a ‘sah’, the repetition only resulted in the collapse of the 'correctness'.
Al Amri's 'The Artists Oath' is a plexiglass block with Arabic sentences embossed on each layer, which are then overlaid until they are illegible.
Al Amri's 'The Artists Oath' is a plexiglass block with Arabic sentences embossed on each layer, which are then overlaid until they are illegible.
Al Amri says: 'I’m really interested in how language affects our function in society. Some languages have specific words that do not exist in other languages, so we can only imagine what input it has in the way a person interacts with the world.'
Al Amri says: 'I’m really interested in how language affects our function in society. Some languages have specific words that do not exist in other languages, so we can only imagine what input it has in the way a person interacts with the world.'
Al Amri's latest exhibition is currently on show.
Al Amri's latest exhibition is currently on show.
'I thought ‘sah’ ('correct') would be the best word to experiment with. I took my time, but it turned out to be the messiest and most frustrating one,' says Al Amri.
'I thought ‘sah’ ('correct') would be the best word to experiment with. I took my time, but it turned out to be the messiest and most frustrating one,' says Al Amri.