Halim Al Karim

Selected Works

Halim AL KARIM Goddess of Florence, 2006, lambda print, 140 x 100 cm, edition de 3 ex. + 2 E.A.jpg

Halim Al Karim
Déesse de Florence, 2006
Tirage Lambda
190 x 130 cm
Édition de 3 ex + 2 EA

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Halim AL KARIM Lost Memory 6, 2001, lambda print, 140 x 100 cm, edition de 3 ex. + 2 E.A .jpg

Halim Al Karim
Lost Memory 6, 2001
Tirage lambda
140 x 100 cm
Édition de 3 ex. + 2 EA

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Halim Al Karim
Déesse de Rome, 2006
Tirage lambda
190 x 130 cm
Édition de 3 ex. + 2 EA

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Halim Al Karim
Déesse de Venise, 2006
Tirage lambda
190 x 130 cm
Edition de 3 ex. + 2 EA

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Halim Al Karim
Mémoire perdue 4, 2001
Tirage Lambda
140 x 100 cm

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Halim Al Karim
Schizoprène 8, 1987
Tirage Lambda
180 x 130 cm

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Halim AL KARIM Schizophrenia 4, 1987, lambda print, 140 x 100 cm, edition de 3 ex. + 2 E.A. .jpg

Halim Al Karim
Schizoprène 4, 1987
Tirage Lambda
180 x 130 cm

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Halim Al Karim
Schizoprène 6, 1987
Tirage lambda
180 x 130 cm

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Halim AL KARIM Hidden Love, 2009, lambda print, 145x 110 cm, edition de 5 ex. + 2 E.A..jpg

Halim Al Karim
Hidden Love 3, 2009
Tirage Lambda
145 x 110 cm
Édition de 5 ex. + 2 EA

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Some of the works depicted are no longer available.

Biography

The war led Halim Al Karim to explore another temporal dimension, an experience which naturally turned him towards photography. He is convinced that human beings evolve simultaneously in several temporalities.

Born in 1963 in Najaf, Iraq, Halim Al Karim lives and works between Denver, Colorado and Dubai.
He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Baghdad in 1998, and from the Gerrit Reitveld Academy of Amsterdam in 1999. Fleeing the Iran-Iraq war, he went into exile in the Iraqi desert and took refuge among the Bedouin.
A woman of the community initiated him into the secrets of magic and medicinal herbs. At the time he lived in a hole with a perforated roof through which he could observe the shapes appearing in the sky. This “ceiling” was like a camera with which he observed the world.

This experience led him into photography. He worked with photographic negatives, scratching them, coloring them, scanning them and drawing on them. Theses stages represent the different layers of time. Halim Al Karim believes that men live in various temporalities simultaneously. War is what brought him to shift into another temporality, an escape while having to face fear and anxiety.
In addition to a great number of ongoing projects, he was part of the Saatchi Gallery’s exhibition “Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East” in London in 2009 and has exposed in many solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Dubai, Lebanon, Jordan, the Netherlands, England.

Public Collections

Arab Museum of Contemporary Art, Doha; Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah;  Darat Al Funun, Amman; Farjam Foundation, Dubai; The George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, Texas; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; Royal Association of Fine Arts, Amman; Saatchi Gallery, London; Sovereign Art Foundation, Hong Kong; Sursock Museum, Beirut; Victoria et Albert Museum, London; Weng Art Foundation, Krefeld.