A forerunner of contemporary abstraction in the Arab world, Samia Halaby (Jerusalem, 1936) is a leading abstract painter and a prominent scholar. After receiving her Masters in Painting from Indiana University, she studied geometric abstraction in Islamic architecture around the Eastern Mediterranean. She is inspired by the concept of abstraction – the notion of reality being represented through form, as well as the various art abstraction movements. In the silkscreen work “Position Delay”, the title alludes to a possible problem being solved or philosophical question that the artist is asking herself which is left to the interpretation of the viewer.