Hend Samir

Melancholia at Sunset 🥀🌤 Acrylic on canvas, 55" H x 67" W, 140x170 cm. © 2023 Courtesy of the Artist.

In A farewell — a trail (2026), Hend Samir turns to the image of a snake shedding its skin as a gesture toward transformation. In Samir’s work figures emerge slowly from fluid, atemporal landscapes, coaxed into being by the liquid pressure of her brushstrokes. In layers of paint the snake gradually dissolves into the painterly ground, and the figure holding it seems to follow, disappearing and becoming. What remains is not a fixed image, but a threshold: a farewell that lingers as a trail. Hend Samir A farewell — a trail, 2026 40 x 50 cm Acrylic on canvas On view in Bring on the Dancing Horses until April 6th. Photos Jonathan de Waart

Painted and titled “On the day of the blood moon”🩸

NY, only a few days remaining to see my show now @harkawik Painting “A sudden Impulse”

Love the death detail “ A ride on a trackless train”

“Abstraction frames these canvases. That is to say, the edges that both constitute the work and delineate it from the world outside of the work are abstracted and point to this abstraction between world and art. These abstractions, unlike Euro-Modernity’s transcendental impulse of the autonomous and functionless myth of pure abstraction, forever outside of history and, if it wants, representation, are in constant relation to the world of things and experiences and also the other. Erotic vignettes hang to dry, cutting across the top three quarters of the canvas, against various scenes rife with the minutiae of table talk and gestures in domestic festive meals in The Talking Candle. The event that marks an occasion to celebrate in the family, a somewhat fleeting moment associated with unity and belonging, is punctured with suspended arousing images of what now looks salacious, in relation, and are intermittently transparent-where sexual acts and erotic desire are grafted onto some of the family members attending the meal. Extruded from the family group, “hung out to dry,” these images in suspension, and even more so the perspectival lines on which these images hang, are articulated clearly precisely over the abstract backdrop of The Talking Candle.” Perwana Nazif First photo at the @rijksakademie 2022 © and licenced 📸 by @verena_blok presented in Canvas Magazine. 2-4 “ Fluttering the Stagnant” Painting 2025, 287x498 cm, from “TheTtalking Candle” solo exhibition at Harkawik NY

Walking in my studio in Amsterdam 🤍 On a quick painted frame by frame #gif morning #animation

“A rhythm between abstraction and figuration picks up a faster pace, echoed throughout each painting, which re-encounters the construction of the forgotten—it is not only what is forgotten, but what cuts through is the act of forgetting itself, what it displaces and inscribes. The lack of central perspective in Samir’s compositions lay out the structure of the interior among various scenes occupying the same plane across time and perspective. In the suggestive Finding Hidey Whole, the ceiling on which an abstracted chandelier hangs is also the ground upon which a bed sits and a young boy stands by a door. The body of the boy seeps into the ground which bleeds into the similarly abstracted domestic rooms that border the canvas. The boy becomes the structure of the home—or the memory of the home. Does the room downstairs exist in material reality or psychic reality? Can the whole of desire, of the subject, that corresponds to the hole that derives pleasure and is figured as lack, really be found? One of Samir’s more abstracted paintings, figures and edges are discernible in Finding Hidey Whole, but appear to be clouded over, shrouded willfully by psychic concealment.“ Perwana Nazif @per.wa.na Image “Finding Hidey Hole” Acrylic on canvas, 35x45cm , 2025 @harkawik NY Image courtsey the Artist

« “These paintings of interior scenes are also scenes of violence and suffering around questions and historical and personal violent constitutions of difference, separation, and identification. These works are also paintings of liberation both psyche and materially. Flotilla 25 (2025) is a far less abstracted work and makes an explicit reference, in its naming as such, to the flotillas attempting to reach the Gaza Strip to deliver humanitarian aid and to break Israel’s siege and genocide in Gaza. A girl holds up a parasol in the colors of the Palestinian flag while a seagull flies over the boat that occupies the entirety of the canvas. More distinct figures feature on the boat, below and above deck, while a more abstracted figure looks out with binoculars. The horizon over the sea collapses with the structure of the boat itself, another horizon of Palestinian liberation. The vista, unlike the other works on view, is clear and distinct even as it merges with the psychic and material architecture of the boat. These are inscriptions of the world, in the world, and also beyond. “» Perwana Nazif @per.wa.na 🤍 Image: Flotilla 25, 45x55 cm, Acrylic in Canvas, 2025 “ The Talking Candle” going on Untill February 14th at Harkawik Gallery Walker St

From the imagination to reality, my epic solo show “The Talking Candle” going on now at @harkawik in Tribeca NYC until the 14th of Feb cannot be missed. Incredible to see it becoming from so tiny to big🧡❤️

If in NY Tomorrow 16th Jan is the opening of my solo exhibition “The Talking Candle” in 88 walker st., @Harkawik gallery, the show is up till 14th Feb

“The Feeling of what happens” 2025