About the artwork
This small-scale work is composed of spray applied to crumpled paper, creating effects of light and volume. In it, Rana Begum explores the modulation of color and visual perception, in a refined, minimalist aesthetic.
Expert opinion
Rana Begum sublimates the simplicity of the material to offer a delicate, immersive optical experience. Her work reveals a rare mastery of light and color, inscribing her abstraction in a tradition that is both spiritual and contemporary.
About the artist
Born in 1977 in Sylhet (Bangladesh), Rana Begum lives and works in London. A graduate of Chelsea College of Art and Design and the Slade School of Fine Art, her work combines sculpture, painting and installation, influenced by Islamic architecture, light and the repetition of motifs. Winner of the Abraaj Group Art Prize in 2017, she has exhibited in prestigious venues such as the Tate, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Centre Pompidou. Her work questions the perception of space, color and light, through an abstraction of great formal precision.
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