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Ghada Amer — The Words I Love the Most
Ghada Amer — The Words I Love the Most
Ghada Amer — The Words I Love the Most
Ghada Amer

The Words I Love the Most

2012

The Words I Love the Most is a 2012 bronze sculpture by Ghada Amer consisting of a large hollow sphere formed entirely from interlocking Arabic calligraphy. The words composing the sphere are associated with love and desire, including terms meaning crazy, anxious, and desire, and are rendered in reverse so that they become fully legible only from within the sculpture. This inward facing legibility is a deliberate conceptual strategy, alluding to the taboo nature of desire in certain cultural contexts. Amer conceals representational and linguistic meaning within an abstract sculptural form, creating a work that rewards close physical engagement.

Medium
Bronze

Notes

Documented on Instagram account @donumestate (Donum Estate / The Donum Collection) with the caption quoting the artist: Like writing in space. Tagged #donumestate #thedonumcollection #ghadaamer. Artist Instagram: @ghadaamer with 16.6K followers. Artist website: www.ghadaamer.com. Artist had an upcoming show titled AURORA at @dirimart with Istanbul opening April 9th noted on profile.

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Ghada Amer, The Words I Love the Most, 2012

The Words I Love the Most is a 2012 bronze sculpture by Ghada Amer consisting of a large hollow sphere formed entirely from interlocking Arabic calligraphy. The words composing the sphere are associated with love and desire, including terms meaning crazy, anxious, and desire, and are rendered in reverse so that they become fully legible only from within the sculpture. This inward facing legibility is a deliberate conceptual strategy, alluding to the taboo nature of desire in certain cultural contexts. Amer conceals representational and linguistic meaning within an abstract sculptural form, creating a work that rewards close physical engagement.

Medium
Bronze
Year
2012
Seen at
The Donum Collection

Related themes

Dark, Bronze, Living Artist, Blue Chip, Cultural Commentary, Conceptual, Installation, Identity, Calligraphy, Public Art, Sculpture, Lebanese-American, Love, Introspective, Feminism, Typography, Geometric Abstraction, Monochromatic, Female Artist, Abstract, Contemporary

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