Sudan Art Panel (2025)

For Underdeveloped #2, the Sudan Art Panel (Hassan Omar Ahmad, Hassan Abbas Ossam Abdullah, Mohammed Abdullah, Yahya Adam) created an on-site mural showing their specific heritage. “The wars taking place in Sudan are part of Sudan. We want peace for the country” says the collective. 

Hassan Omar Ahmad (2023):

A poet once said: “One day I wanted to write a poem, so I went out to work on the beauty of the surrounding nature to conjure a poetic image. I sat in one of the green meadows and contemplated in order to imagine a picture in my mind and put it in my notebook, a picture in the shape of letters that tells a lot of meanings.”

The poet also said: “I saw a painter in the beauty of my country, my home.”

I met the poet and he shared that there are a number of things in common between poetry and drawings. The poet then asked me, “When did you start drawing?”

“I started drawing when I was young. I wanted to write poetry. My words helped me draw a small hut and a tree, and it became a painting. Its atmosphere was poetic.”

The poet asked: “Why do you answer poetry with painting?”

“Because it moves the conscience, because it encapsulates verbal expressions and the art of geometry. “

“When do you like to paint?”

“I like to paint alone with my thoughts, to process my suffering because there is no escape from it. When I make art, I need a quiet place for contemplation, to be able to produce my paintings. However, the cultural space occurs not only in the studio. Besides painting, I draw, design clothes, or collaborate with the collectives I am a part of. The places where I find myself with or between people feeds my practice and vice versa.”

Finally, the poet concluded: “the painter has ideas like thoughts. He has a ‘hand’ with which he can reverse the image of what exists in his mind, the property, that is, the property, which is the hand.”