UNTITLED MIAMI: MALIK THOMAS JALIL KYDD | SOLO SHOW

3 - 7 December 2025 
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Malik Thomas Jalil Kydd (British-Iraqi, b. 1995, Kent, UK) presents a 2025 series created exclusively for his Untitled Miami 2025 solo presentation, unfolding as a constellation of narrative scapes, poetic terrains where figures and atmospheres drift between the intimate and the otherworldly.
 
Each work, rendered in pastel and charcoal on sage-dyed silk, emanates a precise emotional charge. The artist works as a poet who draws, employing a limited palette and distilled gestures to create compositions that are simultaneously haunting and serene.

At the center of these works is a recurring figure, male and universal: an apparition that returns across the series. Drawn from life studies in Amman, sketches from divine art, and found printed images and cyanotypes, these figures inhabit the threshold between intimacy and transcendence. They evoke heroes of longing: familiar, intimate, almost self-portraitive, yet spectral: ghostly presences engaged in meditative encounters.

Surrounding landscapes extend, dissolve, and merge with the figures. Lines meander, flowers constellate into melancholic, ever-changing spaces. Figures do not stand before these landscapes; they inhabit and become part of them, creating worlds that are at once expansive and deeply personal.

Materiality is central to Kydd’s practice, transgressing the historical use of canvas by drawing and painting on woven silk. The silk carries its own history, a material that traveled to where it was sourced by routes of migration and trade, evocative in its sensuality, while charcoal and pastel re-center the material in the drawing studio, creating gestures that articulate and cause stains—lively and intuitive. Immersed in sage-infused decoctions, the works balance vulnerability and strength, desire and sacredness, density and harmony.

Together, these works form a meditative cycle, apparitions suspended between the earthly and the divine, memory and longing. They act as both contemplative objects and interventions, exploring intersections of identity, desire, and the sacred, and offering viewers spaces for reflection, intimacy, and emotional resonance.
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