Samir Odeh-Tamimi: Alif

Claudia Pérez Iñesta writes about Samir Odeh-Tamimi: “Deeply inspired by the works as well as the personalities of Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Antoni Tapiès, Samir Al-Hallaj, Gilles Deleuze, Giacinto Scelsi, Iannis Yeankis … Samir Odeh-Tamimi is an anti-intellectual intellectual, whose research path is characterised by an infinite curiosity joint with the patience of a craftsman. In his work the flexibility of an undetermined path goes hand in hand with stubborn insistence; In his pieces there is always a presence behind the notes, behind the words. It might be an exclamation, amazement … This inherited wake-up call runs through all of his work, and even holds on after the endings …”