Infinite Angles: Mohammed Kazem

Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is pleased to announce its exhibition of Mohammed Kazem: Infinite Angles. The exhibition features new works on paper, paintings and readymade, which continue Kazem’s exploration of materiality and the visualization of light and sound. The artworks on view are imprints and records of both material and immaterial things in the world, they reveal an invisible light and inaudible sound that exists in a continuous sequence with no beginning or end. Kazem photographs light to capture its manifestations across building constructions. He also hears the sound of light as he scratches it onto the surface of paper.

Kazem’s paintings, drawings, and scratched paper act as a site for the production of creative work, where his material is reshaped into an artefact that documents this labour. Sound of Angles (2020) is an installation that brings together a found door and new scratches on paper. Continuing his scratching technique, which Kazem began in the 1990’s, he created abrasions into the paper’s surface with a pair of scissors pushes and pulls the blade against the paper, tearing and scratching the material in an effort to render sound visual. In this installation, Kazem includes a found bathroom door, which he first encountered at an Italian restaurant in Cincinnati, Ohio. The door wears the marks of history upon its surface; layers of paint, now slowly coming off, attempt to mask the evidence of the countless palms that have pressed upon it. Visitors to the exhibition are invited to push through Kazem’s found door, activating its hinges and its potential to continue harnessing the energy from the force of each hand. On the other side, a display of new scratch works on coloured paper mark the sound of each angle made as the door swings open – each colour sourced from the painted layers on the door’s degraded surface.