Risen Catalogue - Monnow Valley Arts Centre

15Qassim Alseady(born 1949)Crucifixion with Nails 2004Oil on incised board, steel nails and bronze 18th century corpus, 40 × 40 cmSigned on the reverseQassim Alseady draws on his experiences in Iraq. It is about loveof a person, an idea, a place or country. The eternal struggle ofwar, hatred, ugliness and wickedness and their opposite, peace,love, goodness and beauty.Although brought up as a Muslim, Qassim Alseady hasprofound respect for the prophet Jesus. In this painting thesuffering crucified Christ is represented by the nails driven intothe board. Around the nails and corpus from a reused 18thcentury devotional crucifix are hieroglyphs or undecipherablewritings suggesting an unknown language from ancient times thatroots the Christian narrative in the land of Alseady’s birth.32