“Tuk” is the title of an exhibition by Azza Abu Rabieh (born in Hama in 1980) at the Saleh Barakat Gallery featuring composer Khaled Omran and sound designer Tariq Khaluti, and the installation by Nelsi Massoud that gave its name. “Change”. The movement of movement in time and space and the resulting contradictions is a feature of this manifestation of many changes, since Abu Rabia chose to dismantle these changes by various means, and then rearrange the it in a different structure, expressing a struggle with existence. by the rhythmic “flutter” of a butterfly. Like a heartbeat that seeks everything and nothing. The Syrian artist disassembles parts of his personality to reconfigure it in his work, which is divided between drawings, prints and watercolor, showing changes in the body. In the engravings, there is a visual vision with a special poetic meaning of the characters in the sketches, which are dismantled and then reshaped into various formations. The elements of human presence are interconnected, interconnected, suspended in a thin line of life, the very being of the artist. A graphic thread that goes back to Abu Rabiya’s experiences and feelings, as well as to the art of engraving. However, this is only the effect of a law whose purpose is to define only the formal structure, knowing that it emphasizes its importance elsewhere, so it becomes open to definitions. The thread/line mixes to send transparent signals, with a childish feeling that the artist is feeling fear and sadness, embedded in the stretching and retreating characters. However, we can say that the instructions given have no indicative intensity and are probably quite simplistic and flat. We feel it in front of the various forms of a flower, a butterfly or a cocoon, shining from their hollow the human soul, thirsting for freedom. Despite the fragility of the butterfly and the speed of its slowdown, it is in frightening acts of pride, because whoever is not in the framework of its existence, will “shout” and hurry, making his wings in two bodies to embrace and then separate. , in the middle of transformation (metamorphoses) male to female and female to male, covered with spots and yellow color. Franz Kafka seems to be a fictional reference to the plastic work of Azza Abu Rabieh and to the work of the artists who accompanied his exhibition. Kafka, in one of his most famous novels, Metamorphoses or Metamorphoses, became a cockroach, and his cockroach provided inspiration. his butterfly, as well as his colleague Nelsie Massoud, the title of his installation and his interpretations.
Azza’s butterfly evolves par excellence, as in one painting it is a butterfly, in another it is a woman dancing with a man, and in a third it is a fetus in a woman’s womb. Her wings became lips ready to kiss. In one photo, a butterfly pierces a woman’s grief, dissolving her fibers in a night dream. The butterfly moves between painting, carving and sculpture… to eventually die in the painting.
The butterfly moves between painting, carving and sculpture… to eventually die in the painting.
In the work of Lebanese Nelsi Massoud, the installation “Transformation” occupies the space of the upper class gallery and includes the possibilities of the existential transformation of the human “I”. As for metamorphosis, it is represented by the transformation of larvae into butterflies (butterfly is a common symbol and, incidentally, a theme of pride), while the materials and elements of the installation provide a structure for life -changing forms. , and a final reference to the fact that the artist Massoud spent twenty -three years in New York, where he specialized and gained experience in glass mosaics, before returning to Beirut in 2005.
* “Tuk”: until July 23 – “Gallery Saleh Barakat” (Clemenceau) – for information: 01/365615
