Searching for the Blessed Light
that Washes the Desire from its Sins

In his recent works, Yasser concentrated on the glow that shines from the core of objects, rather than the light that is shed on them from the Outside. That is the difference between the Essence and the Apparent, between the Vision and the Sight, between the Depths and the Shell. Yasser is wrought with light that gushes out from the deep darkness of bodies through the sparkle of eyes and the radiance of souls, which boost to emancipation from the obligations of lines and forms in Painting, defined by the forefathers of philosophy to be the emulation of nature and reality.

Yasser Hammoud is making the questions more difficult for himself, questions about life and death, before he reaches for the answers in colors and techniques, where he guides the colors to their extreme energy and tiniest musical grades. There is a light hidden in their extract, a light that needs exhausting experiments before reaching the goal and desire in the paradise of coloring and formation. At this point, Yasser discovers the colors of the music and their accurate gradations to the recipients’ sight, hearing, feeling, and the rest of their senses. A dancing music can be heard in the colors of the froth shattered on the blue waves, in the motion of wind through the whiteness of clouds, and in the transparency of the breeze fluffing through the tree leaves.

Yasser’s paintings are a research in Light and Music in a temporal concept, where we can recall fantasies of the genesis and formation after the cosmic explosion, when life emerged after nonentity, motion after quiescence, and wakefulness after repose. The features of objects are clarified gradually until they are artistically ripened and matured, mathematically accurate that we can distinguish between the sparkling light grades in an eye tear and a dewdrop on the grass. It is a formation that blows out the theory of the reflection of light through prism, and demolishes the ancient idols in the temple of classical art, which has been Yasser’s proficiency in his earlier experiences until he attained the Sufi abstraction in this exhibition.

Nabeel Saleh