Colour Scrolls 01 — Basmah Felemban

Colour Scrolls (white, red,yellow,green)Digital print on Cotton fabric
41 x 121 cm
2D

In this series, Felemban examines how language and culture impact the ways in which we understand color. She looks at color as a material reality in and of itself, drawing from influences including Al-Hussein bin Ali Al-Nimri, a scholar of literature and language from Basra who wrote ‘The Polished’ (Al-Mullamma’ d. 385 AH. Considered one of the first linguistic treatises that specialized in the study of colors, he delves into the five colors that God Almighty created: white, black, red, yellow, and green, four of which he singled out for the sons of Adam: white, black, red, and yellow.