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Nadia
Saikali
Cantate orange, 2003, Oil on wood, 20 x 20 cm
1974, Oil on canvas, 80 x 90 cm
Along with the concentration on kinetics, Saikali continues
to paint. In 1972 she begins to explore the concept of color
stripes. About them, she says: "They are like a tissue
of nerves, a fiber, a surface; no object, no drawing. The
line is no more a line, but the line exists; it is a surface
which is undulating one way or another, inward or outward,
and is an entity in itself. Because it grew out of me, it
is moving and alive; but now it expresses its won life,
lives in its own dimension." |
Starlight - 1969 - 70, optic fiber, chrome and
aluminum, 50 x 50 cm.
Still seeking a more intensely living quality in her
work, Saikali turns to energy of light and movement as
a medium. The kinetic work now begins in earnest. She
goes back to textbooks of physics and chemistry, and seeks
out the technicians to assist her in realizing her ideas
in these new materials. Underneath the construction is
an electric motor, which feeds colored light to the tips
of the optic fibers and also causes them to revolve slowly,
throwing moving patterns of color across the polished
chrome surface. Her Beirut exhibition in 1970 marks the
first of kinetics in the Middle East and probably in the
Arab world.
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