What do you remember from your childhood? Have you ever been amazed when seeing your family’s old photos?
Looking at Hend Samir’s paintings in an exhibition entitled Running in a Skewed Daydream is like seeing a family’s old photo. Hend Samir is an Egyptian painter based in Amsterdam and Cairo. This exhibition was inspired by Samir’s childhood home in Cairo.
Hend Samir, “Untitled (Mural 3)” (2020), Courtesy of Artist and Real Pain. https://www.realpain.com/
Untitled (Mural 3), 2020 is a panoramic painting about the interrelations of family members. Samir uses strong and huge brush strokes. The painting makes the viewer walking, looking, and remembering. They are not just seeing at the painting, but also ‘making’ their own image.
Hend Samir, “A Turbulent Building” (2020), Courtesy of Artist and Real Pain. https://www.realpain.com/
A Turbulent Building (2020) depicts a scene or cut-up of an apartment building. Every room has its own story. Its red, black, and purple suggest intimacy, but also bitterness.
Hend Samir’s main inspiration is the people around him, like the teenager in the family. He found that adolescence is so energetic. “They give off an essence of experience beyond their years, an internal wrestling.”
Running in a Skewed Daydream will set to run from Jan 30 – Mar 6, 2021, at Real Pain, 1819 3rd Ave Los Angeles, CA, 90019.