LONDON — Hoor Al Qasimi, creative director of London-based brand Qasimi, collaborated with 84-year-old Sudanese artist Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq as a way of shedding light on the 2023 Sudan conflict.
Qasimi didn’t do the same old act of borrowing the prints for her collection. As a substitute, she fixated on a number of of Ishaq’s works and drew her own inspiration from some while she plastered others as a print onto the clothes.
“Ishaq did a painting called ‘People in Crystal Cubes,’ so I desired to take this concept of crystal-ism and crystal cubes to bring it into this story. It’s more about how the artist works,” said Qasimi during her London presentation at Somerset House, where the London Art Biennale is...
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