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Ahmed Umar
JoinedJuly 6, 2019
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Ahmed Umar is a Sudanese Norwegian contemporary cross-disciplinary artist. His works recreate a narrative of his own life story utilising various techniques such as sculpture, printmaking, painting and performance. In his attempt to resolve the contradictions of living in a distant and secular place, Umar mobilises these methods to explore the complex relationship between identity, authority, sexuality, depression and art. His work is charged with social critique, a sense of directness, Arabic calligraphy and a hint of his Nubian visual heritage.

New York City Pride as seen by Ahmed Umar

The 30th of June was a day in New York City with two important marches for me. The Pride march, and a march for supporting the grand march in Sudan to protest against the military regime that is massacring civilians in an attempt to take the power. I chose the...