Hussein Salim - The Garden of Carnal Delights

The Garden of Carnal Delights’ represents the marriage of the world, and the manifestation of thought all bound to the circle of life. Salim’s painting by the same name depicts the love child of the world and thought, the twins named consciousness and existence representing the void which is the absence of idea, its birth, and its death. 

Most people today are living for the next moment thereby devaluing the present moment and the sacred essence of who we are as people. We can enjoy this world of form but true satisfaction does not come from there. The world cannot make you happy. Things cannot give you happiness. Because happiness comes from a deeper place within you. Therefore this exhibition is a call for a coming into or stepping into the acceptance of a present moment. As Salim says there must be a full mindset movement from the paradigm to carry out this task to another level of inner spirituality.

He has a constant desire to reach and reveal intimate personal scenes. If one can put their eyes and their minds on the wounds and secrets of the things that they try to conceal, through my works of art, their desires to search for their own character grows, because painting is always a process of creating a place depicting the inside and the outside of an artist's mind and their audience. It is an extreme effort that tries to respond to the simple and beautiful little things that are absent from us but similitanuly can heal us. It is the silent conversation, which is the teaching of the careful listening of things and their observance

Presented by The Melrose Gallery