AT HOME IN THE WORLD A MEMOIR

For more than a half century, Ibrahim El-Salahi has been at the forefront of African modernism in the visual arts. A renowned artist, writer, critic, and teacher, he continues to refine his unique modernist vision, which combines and challenges Islamic, African, and western paradigms of modernism in the visual arts. In this engaging memoir, El-Salahi recalls some of the most formative experiences and encounters of his career. From Khartoum to London to Sao Paulo to New York to Doha, and many places in between, he shares his wide-ranging intellectual curiosity as he seeks out significant artworks and interesting conversations in several continents. Salah M. Hassan’s introduction contextualizes El-Salahi’s work within a global history of modern art and expands its narrative. The Africa Institute is an interdisciplinary academic research institute dedicated to the study, research, and documentation of Africa, its people and its cultures, its complex past, present, and future, and its manifold connections with the wider world.