Live Auction 7933Modern and Contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish Art
Ahmed Mater (Saudi Arabian, B. 1979)
Lot 61 DONATED BY THE ARTIST FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE EDUCATION PROGRAMME OF EDGE OF ARABIA

Ahmed Mater (Saudi Arabian, B. 1979)

Evolution of Man

Closed19 April 2011

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Ahmed Mater (Saudi Arabian, B. 1979)
Evolution of Man
five light boxes
each lightbox: 31 1/8 x 23 3/8in. (79.2 x 59.4cm.)
Executed in 2010; this work is number five from an edition of eight plus two artist's proofs

Specialist note

'I wanted to take this photo during my daily life at the hospital. I used the X-ray because for me, it is a unique force for revealing the inside. I don't know why I thought about suicide... maybe because sometimes we talk about suicide with ourselves. I am a country man and at the same time, the son of this strange, scary oil civilisation. In ten years our lives changed completely. For me it is a drastic change that I experience every day.' (Ahmed Mater)