Artworks

X-Ray Illuminations

Like its title, this series irradiates to lay bare and draw together binaries that are often considered incompatible. The works blend the past, represented by traditional Islamic arts, with the present, through the innovations of modern medicine. Faith and science are brought together – two subjects that are often treated as essentially separate and full of tense contradictions.

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Talisman Illumination IV 2013 pomegranate tea gold leaf Chinese ink lacquer and X ray photograpgh 101 5x152cm

Talisman Illumination IV

Illumination Diptych I II 2008 Ahmed Mater Gold leaf tea pomegranate Dupont Chinese ink and offset X Ray print and mixed media on archival A Arche paper two pieces each 165 x 110 cmjpg copy

Illumination Diptych I

Mashq X Ray I H100 CM x W 70 CM300

Mashq X Ray I

155cm 105cm Cardiac Illumination Illumination Torse II 2009 Ahmed Mater Gold lead tea pomegranate Dupont Chinese ink and offset X Ray print and mixed media on archival Arche paper 155 x 105 155cm 105cm

Cardiac Illumination II

Cardiac Illumination I 2009 Ahmed Mater Gold lead tea pomegranate Dupont Chinese ink and offset X Ray print and mixed media on archival Arche paper 155 x 105 DSC 0006 copy

Cardiac Illumination I

Illumination Skull 2009 Ahmed Mater 105 x 155 Gold lead tea pomegranate Dupont Chinese ink and offset X Ray print and mixed media on archival Arche paper 155cm 105cm

Illumination Skull

230cm 155cm 3x copy

Illumination Diptych VII

Illumination Madaniat Al Hijrah 2012 dyptich 60x40 inch 2 of 2

Illumination Madaniat Al Hijrah

Mihrab Illumination I 2009 Ahmed Mater Gold lead tea pomegranate Dupont Chinese ink crystals and offset X Ray print and mixed media on archival Arche paper 147 x 105 105cm 147cm

Mihrab Illumination I

Silk Road Ahmed Mater 2016 Ahmed Mater

Silk Road

Surah Illumination I 2009 Ahmed Mater Gold lead tea pomegranate Dupont Chinese ink and offset X Ray print and mixed media on archival Arche paper 155 x 105 00000000

Surah Illumination I

Talisman X Ray III 2008 Ahmed Mater Gold lead tea pomegranate Dupont Chinese ink and offset X Ray print and mixed media on archival 155 x 105 Illuminations IH155 CM x W 105 CM

Talisman X Ray III

Talisman X Ray Talisman X Ray Blue Torso IV 2008 Ahmed Mater Gold lead tea pomegranate Dupont Chinese ink and offset X Ray print and mixed media on archival paper 100 x 70 100cm 70cm

Talisman X Ray Blue Torso IV

Waqf Illumination Illumination blue III 2009 Ahmed Mater Gold lead tea pomegranate Dupont Chinese ink and offset X Ray print and mixed media on archival Arche paper 155 x 105 155cm 105cm

Waqf Illumination Blue III

Waqf Illumination Illumination Head On II 2009 Ahmed Mater Gold lead tea pomegranate Dupont Chinese ink and offset X Ray print and mixed media on archival Arche paper 155 x 105 155cm 105cm

Waqf Illumination, Head On II

Talisman X Ray I Fatema 2008 Ahmed Mater Offset X Ray print and mixed media on archival paper 165 x 110 fatema talisman x ray copy

Talisman X-Ray I (Fatema)

Tholoth Mashq Illumination 2010 Ahmed Mater Gold lead tea pomegranate Dupont Chinese ink and offset X Ray print and mixed media on archival Arche paper 155 x 105 tagori mashq

Tholoth Mashq Illumination

BLACK STONE Hajr Aswad ILLUMINATION 2009 155x105 cm athar

Black Stone Hajr Aswad Illumination

CARDIAC ILLUMINATION II ILLUMINATION TORSO 155cm 105cm

Cardiac Illumination Torso II

ILLUMINATION UNTITLED 2008 155 x 105 DSC0361

Illumination Untitled

Illumination Diptych I II 2008 Ahmed Mater Gold leaf tea pomegranate Dupont Chinese ink and offset X Ray print and mixed media on archival A Arche paper two pieces each 165 x 110 cmjpg copy

Illumination Diptych (unnumbered, left)

Ahmed Mater Cosmic Illumination II 2014 pomegranate tea gold leaf Chinese ink lacquer and X ray photograpgh 103x152cm

Cosmic Illumination II

SURAH ILLUMINATION II 2011 Dimensions H152 x W103cm final

Surah Illumination II

Talisman X Ray V 2009 155 x 105

Talisman X-Ray V

Untitled X Ray 2006 Offset Print and x ray on paper

Untitled X-Ray

WAQF ILLUMINATION ILLUMINATION BLUE 2009 155cm 105cm

Waqf Illumination

Waqf Illumination Illumination West 2009 155cm 105cm

Waqf Illumination West