Daneyal Mahmood Gallery is pleased to exhibit Leemour Pelli’s most recent body of work.

Pelli works in the diverse media of painting, sculpture, drawings and prints, aiming at exploring fundamental aspects of human experience, both real and imagined.

The work contains figures that are constricted by, and paradoxically perhaps, thriving on their emotional and physical conditions. They are both subjects and objects of the acts of perception, love, and memory. Metaphorically, reality and the self are often x-rayed. They are delved into, layered, and exposed from the inside out, to reveal what is concealed, suppressed, or difficult to discern. As an expression of the internal and the elusive, some of the characters are rendered with external anatomical organs, or marks and imprints. The figures are ruptured, fragmented and disintegrating, suggesting the inner, imperceptible drama of the characters. The figures become more and more skeletal, at times complete skeletons; being a metaphor for the human condition

The work draws inspiration from literature and poetry, such as the writings of Samuel Beckett, and Ted Hughes. Characters and personas that may resemble those in some of their writings, like Murphy and Crow, are re-created and used in a theatrical series of works.

Though the work consists of single figures or couples, it may be said that larger issues concerning the break down or malfunctioning of human relations and humanity itself are invoked. A general failure at connection is evident. Indeed, the work is about fundamental collapse: of contemporary social conventions, perceptions, relationships, and individuals’ internal and exterior worlds.