Series Overview:

The Untitled Collection gathers the earliest works of Ali Alamdar’s practice, it is the raw archive, the origin of Alamdar’s language. Some stand as complete narratives, portraits and scenes that already carry the artist’s instinct for storytelling. Others exist as transitional pieces, works made not to close a statement but to move a practice forward.

What unites them is their position at the beginning, before the discipline of series and systems had been established. Here, Alamdar paints both with intention and with necessity: to test materials, to feel out symbols, to let images arrive without the weight of structure. Figures appear, dissolve, re-emerge; cultural markers flicker alongside private gestures.

Taken together, the collection functions as both archive and origin. It records the urgency of making before resolution, the mixture of story and experiment that would later cohere into more formal bodies of work. The Untitled Collection is not a footnote, it is the ground from which the rest of the practice grows.