Ihsan Saad Ihsan Tahir’s first solo show أخْتَفو  وَراءْ ألشَمْس (They Disappeared Behind the Sun) is a painterly examination of cultural exchange and masculinity, written language and spoken language, the translation of the two and the experience of voicelessness in this process. The project took form across two trips he made in the fall of 2022; one into the glittering and diverse fellowship of the Los Angeles art scene, and one to meet his family for the first time in Baghdad, Iraq, where he upon arrival had lost his voice. It now continues in the rooms in All. This project combines main trades of All all all's previous residency forms, in that it unites what will be a fully installed show at the time of the opening with the continued work of the artist expanding his work series. During the time of the show Ihsan Tahir will move his studio into the space and work in the exhibition.

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In his artistic practice Ihsan produces both abstract and figurative works that revolve around notions of class, cultural exchange, translation and nostalgia. With 
أخْتَفو  وَراءْ ألشَمْس (They Disappeared Behind the Sun), he has created a series of paintings in clear blues greens and reds on bed linen, tarp and canvas. The paintings mediate a variation of spaces and landscapes in a way that makes their limits hard to define - like cut out from their surroundings they now expands onto the walls and seem to examine the levels of intimacy that exist in their spaces. Across his use of materials and in all the works are clear traces of his interest in language and H/history. They center around his investigation into how a specific language sometimes must arise in certain situations, that demand it to communicate specific stories. One example of this gesture has given name to the show: a sentence that is said in Iraq, about people who vanished in the wars.

Ihsan’s work examines narratives of displacement, modern literature, personal histories and ways in which we tend to accept existing portrayals and tropes. In All all all his investigation occupies the painted scenes, through a series of sentences the artist has picked up from pop and rap music, from poetry and sayings, and, in the form of a repeated motif: single humans on scooters, whose age or place in the world are hard to get a grip on, except that they now reside in the material on his frames.

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