so the neon lights in arabic, spelling out God's names, are a spin off of bruce nauman's work.
i'm pretty sure 'al-fataha' translates to 'the opener'. yet its labelled as 'the judge' on the saatchi gallery website.
the site will tell you this is a rejection of the idea of the 'clash of civilizations', and that it is a synthesis of the east west dichotomy that dawood shares in.
but i see an allusion to the burning bush story/myth/ religious narrative. a miraculous, neon-lit spectacle entangled in desolation; a glowing advertisement from within the dry, wild west frontier. it describes the current state of meeting of these two cultures.
His ideas on sufism are written here - a commentary on his artwork involving vintage praktica cameras.
this dude's work is really starting to fascinate me.
but, not suprisingly, in interview, seems pretty pretentious.
[over-used words when reading about art: 1) subversive 2) pretentious].
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