Khairulddin Wahab imagines the land as a palimpsest of stories spanning generations.
Landscape Palimpsest points to the historical shifts in our relationship with the land, from a terraqueous surface to the production of territory. Through these layered and suspended paintings, the work questions the conception of our land as a total, unified and stable “terra firma.”
Central to these paintings are the topographical backgrounds that the artist creates by layering paint over canvases left on the ground. As the paint dries over time, sedimentation occurs and leaves traces of the ground’s topology, which inform the artist’s compositions. Through this approach, the work also proposes an understanding of landscapes as a process of writing and co-creation.
