Ubuntu, 2022
Painting : acrylic, canvas, Pigments · 50 x 50 x 3 cm 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch · Ready to hang
€2,500
2 500 €
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Painting : Unique artwork
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Artwork sold in perfect condition, not framed, ready to hang
with stretcher frame
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50 x 50 x 3 cm 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Multilayer acrylic relief, intense artistic pigments and gold-coloured metallic pigments on canvas
Unique original artwork — 1/1
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In "Ubuntu", contemporary artist Nejla Rouissi creates a powerful and deeply intimate encounter between a woman and an elephant. Their foreheads meet in silence, transforming a simple gesture into a universal image of trust, recognition and shared existence.
Neither figure dominates the other. The monumental elephant lowers its head with gentleness, while the woman raises her hands toward its face. Their closeness creates the emotional centre of the composition: a moment in which strength becomes tenderness and difference gives way to connection.
The title refers to the African philosophy of Ubuntu, commonly expressed through the idea: “I am because we are.” Here, identity is not represented as something isolated. It is formed through relationships—with other people, with living beings and with the wider natural world.
Behind the figures, an intense golden atmosphere evokes the warmth of sunset. The silhouetted acacia tree situates the scene within an expansive landscape, while the luminous sky gives the encounter an almost timeless quality.
The woman’s pale drapery introduces movement and light. Its layered folds contrast with the elephant’s dark mass and richly worked surface. Gold-coloured details illuminate her jewellery, face and hands, establishing a visual dialogue with the surrounding sky.
Nejla Rouissi constructs the painting through multiple applications of acrylic, intense pigments and relief medium. The elephant’s skin is developed through subtle textural variations, while raised passages and metallic accents create depth across the canvas.
The gold-coloured pigments respond to natural and directional light. Their appearance changes according to the viewing angle, progressively revealing warmer reflections and delicate details. From a distance, the work possesses a strong, immediately recognisable silhouette; viewed closely, it reveals the physical richness of its multilayered surface.
The composition brings together monumentality and intimacy, power and vulnerability, humanity and nature. Rather than presenting the elephant as a distant symbol, the artist creates a relationship based on equality and mutual presence.
The handwritten message on the reverse completes the meaning of the work:
Entirely created by hand, is a unique and unreproducible original artwork.
Presentation
Nejla Rouissi (b. 1988) is a doctor-engineer, researcher, university lecturer in computer science and multidisciplinary artist whose practice develops at the intersection of scientific thought, technology, embodied movement and contemporary creation.
Her work translates the tension between logic and emotion into multilayered compositions in which colour, relief, texture and depth operate as interconnected living systems. Drawing on her scientific background, Rouissi investigates complexity and the invisible structures shaping human experience: networks, forces, balance, transformation, memory and connection.
Working across a wide range of formats and techniques—from intimate paintings to sculptural reliefs—she selects and adapts each medium according to the conceptual and emotional requirements of the artwork. Acrylic colour, intense pigments, metallic accents and pronounced textures give her compositions a powerful physical presence that evolves according to surrounding light and the viewer’s position.
Rouissi’s parallel practice of trapeze and aerial hoop extends this artistic research into physical space. Suspension, tension, movement, control and balance become embodied counterparts to the structures present within her visual work. The body is not separate from the creative process; it becomes another system through which energy, rhythm, resistance and emotion can be explored.
This relationship between intellectual precision and physical experience gives her practice its distinctive character. Scientific analysis provides structure, while movement, intuition and material experimentation introduce freedom and unpredictability.
Through this dialogue, Rouissi has developed a singular contemporary language in which art, science and the body become inseparable. Her works invite viewers to perceive the unseen relationships connecting matter, movement, consciousness and space.
Nejla Rouissi is represented internationally by Abstract Art Gallery, founded in Riga in 2010.
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