The painter and printmaker Mohammad Omar Khalil speaks with writer Maya Jaggi about why he works only in black and white, making work as an embodied process, and surviving as a working artist in New York.

In 2020 the Mosaic Rooms hosted ‘Homeland Under My Nails’, an exhibition of Khalil’s prints from 1964 to now. It explores the experimentation and international sensibility of the artist, who trained in Sudan and Italy, and has lived in New York and Asilah since the early 1970s. Curated by Abed AlKadiri, the exhibition showed works from throughout Khalil’s career, some displayed for the first time.

“In black, you meditate more than in colour. Colour is fascinating, attractive, I think of it as superficial. Black and white draws you in.”

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