Nour el Saleh’s haunting paintings whisper the iconography of faerie tale, ancient myth and parable with a figurative language that silkily morphs between corporeal form and hieroglyph. Mystical and melancholic, she interrogates the pillars of assumed truths and in doing so, captures the quiet agony of inflection and contemplation. Transforming mood and moment, shifting truth to fiction, etiolation and emaciation are inevitably designed by the artist to speak not just to the cryptic mystery of her poetic narrative but to signify the outsider, told to be still, yet who remains adamantly not.