Selected Artworks

Sara Umar

Through extensive research and meticulous compositions, Sara Umar explores historical vocabularies and subverts them. Her paintings derive from a society defined by patriarchy, in which women are often dehumanized to symbolize distorted visions of religion and politics. The paintings revolt against these isolating modes of oppression; they deny continuing the cultivated silence which protects systems. Subsequently, her artworks are an invitation to explore and confront the ancestral mythology that still lingers within our minds and reconcile. They are forceful and, in their refusal of shame and silence, life-affirming.

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