Building Bridges No.33 by nassim nasr
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Medium: Oil Pigment Stick on Canvas
Dimensions: 100 x 100 cm
Year: 2025
Price: $4000.00 USD
Status: available
In this series titled Building Bridges, I focus on how we spend too much time building walls, and not enough time building bridges. I use the arch as my main element since it is a structure with deep resonance. The arch embodies and symbolizes many things: strength and support, lightness and openness within density, and thresholds into liminal space. In mythology, arches are understood as doorways in time and space through which one passes to enter another kind of time and space, a concept that is deeply consonant with our ministries of both worship and hospitality. In architecture, the arch serves to lift the eye and spirit upwards to a higher plane and ideal.
Why collect this work?
Five stacked bands of interlocking arches turn one architectural motif into both opening and barrier, making connection appear inseparable from division.
- Nasr describes the arch as the recurring form of his practice and as a threshold before change. Here, repetition shifts that stated idea from a single crossing to a collective structure.
- In the photograph, each band appears to overlap the next, while alternating green, blue, orange, violet and pink separates foreground from recess. The regular rhythm is repeatedly disrupted at the cropped edges, suggesting a pattern extending beyond the canvas.
- The documented oil pigment stick on canvas permits broad, opaque colour areas alongside visible irregularities in their boundaries. Those slight deviations keep the modular design from reading as mechanically produced.
- Dated 2025 and titled Building Bridges No.33, the painting is a focused case for examining how the same shape can signify passage when isolated, yet resemble a wall when multiplied and compressed.
About the Artist
nassim nasr
nassim nasr is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in dubai, AE.
Nationality: Lebanese
Nassim Nasr is a Lebanese artist based in the UAE, working in oil pigment stick on canvas. His practice centres on a single recurring form, the arch.
