Title
Alif
Creator
Year/Period
1993
Region
Singapore
Object Type
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 131.5 x 60.0 x 36.0 cm
Accession No.
2022-00504
Collection of
Credit Line
Collection of National Gallery Singapore. © Estate of Mohammad Din Mohammad
Mohammad Din Mohammad (1955–2007) was an artist, traditional healer, guru silat (Malay martial arts master), writer, and collector of Southeast Asian artefacts. His was above all a Sufi mystic, and this mystical and ascetic form of Islam deeply informed all aspects of his life and art. In Sufi meditations, the slenderness of the Alif, the first letter of the Arabic, Persian and Jawi alphabet, is often used as a comparison for the slender form of the Beloved (God). This assemblage is also part of a larger installation conceived by Mohammad Din Mohammad in 2001 titled Pyramid of Soul: Celebrating Alif.
