KARIM EL NOUR
I am a photographer and visual artist drawn to those quiet moments where cinema seems to breathe through stillness and ideas drift like smoke between reality and abstraction. For more than ten years I have wandered through photography and media design seeking images that transcend the merely visual. Images that ask questions without answers, stir feelings you cannot name and linger like an unfinished sentence in the mind.
Light and shadow speak to me as a language while structure and abstraction form a dialect I try to understand. I chase a raw, grungy kind of beauty that feels both close and far away where honesty meets a rhythm almost graphic in its precision. Faces break apart into fragments, stories unfold in the space between contrasts and framing pushes quietly against the usual rules of what a portrait should be.
Muted monochromes settle like soft rain, sudden bursts of surreal color flash like a memory and textures rise up almost tangible letting me dismantle human expression only to build it back again in a new shape. I am less interested in capturing a perfect likeness than in the atmosphere that surrounds it. The tension held in a glance, the weight of silence hanging between words, the quiet story hidden in the space between one breath and the next.
EXHIBITIONS.
L'EXPRESSION - UN AUTRE POINT DE VUE
March 25th, 2019 - March 31st, 2019
Gravelottestraße 7, 81667 Munich, Germany