Published 18/07/2013

Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist

Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist

Miguel Benavides talks to Ibrahim El-Salahi about his Sudanese heritage, his time in prison on unfounded suspicion of anti-government activities, politics, his career, having sympathy for the underdog, and what makes good art.

Tate Modern, London
3 July–22 September 2013

by MIGUEL BENAVIDES

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Ibrahim El-Salahi. Self-Portrait of Suffering, 1961. Iwalewa-Haus, University of Bayreuth, Germany  © Ibrahim El-Salahi.

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