In À Contre-Courant (“Against the Current”), Abdallah Akar merges gesture, texture, and text to explore the tension between tradition and renewal. Fragments of script in red and gold seem to drift across layers of gray and black, evoking movement against resistance. The fluid calligraphic forms interact with traces of French poetry, creating a dialogue between languages, materials, and histories.
Through this composition, Akar visualizes the act of writing as rebellion — a luminous current that flows contrary to conformity, turning the written word into a living field of motion and light.
