Skulls and bones, Tabassom Charaf


Contribution by Tabassom Charaf

Tabassom Charaf has contributed a series of anatomically themed artworks to Haider Ackermann’s A#3, in a warped study of the human body and it’s mysteries. The series features light, scribbled sketches of fluid human-like forms, yet with various manipulations rendering them animalistic and warped. Accompanying these are more deformed creatures, the first being an awkwardly large human skull, enlarged (stretched even) from the frontal lobe of the brain reaching back, almost as though the being housed an abnormally large brain but a normally proportioned face. Resting beside is a pair of starkly pale siamese twins locked in an eternal embrace, their extremities morphed into one being, seemingly floating in white. Their eyes and heads are darkened, the image shows quite the opposite of any signs of life, suggesting an early death for these ghostly siblings. The overall effect is unsettling, as Charaf offers all but normalcy in her perspective of the human body, rather a celebration of differences, of the weird and fantastical anomalies of nature.

Contribution by Tabassom Charaf

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