David Sami

 

David Sami is a painter whose work documents historical and contemporary mediation of violence. Through sourcing social media images of current war, genocide, and human rights violations, he utilizes figuration and abstraction in order to re-sensitize the viewer to the events' reality.

 
 
 
A painting on burlap of a series of figures laying on what seems to be a long bed. The colors are muted and the figures' clothes are shades of blue.

ولاد الجيران 2024. oil on burlap. Photo by Bob.

 
Three pieces of cloth that are black and splotched with multiple other colors. On one piece, it reads "Food pack" and underneath what seems to be white paper it looks like there is a piece of bloody meat.

Transmissions. 2023-2024. mixed media. Photo by Bob.

 
Painting on burlap. 2 thirds of it are light brown and 1 third is dark brown, and there is a dark brown, abstract figure on the light brown section of the burlap.

علقوها 2024. oil on burlap. Photo by Bob.

 
Painting of figures in muted colored clothing holding empty metal pots and bowls.

Famine[REDACTED]. 2024. oil on burlap on tar paper. Photo by Bob.

 
Painting of several figures in what seems to be a forest all lined up, journeying to somewhere off in the distance.

Into the white. 2024. oil on sheetrock. Photo by Bob.