Agial
Art Gallery would like to invite you to the opening
of
Tamara Al Samerraei exhibition
Fleeting Fences
Opening:
Thursday 22 September, 2011 at 6:00 pm
(till October 15 , 2011)
"1983",
180x190cm, mixed media on canvas, 2011
Born in Kuwait in 1977, Tamara al Samerraei
lives and works in Beirut. She received
a BA in Fine Arts from the Lebanese American University
in Beirut in 2002. In 2008, she had a solo exhibition
at Agial Gallery entitiled “ Something White”.She
had participated in numerous group exhibitions including,
All About Beirut,White Box, Munich(2010); Exposure,
Beirut Art Center, Lebanon (2009); MidEast Cut:
International festival for alternative film and
video, Denmark and Finland (2009);Radius of Art
projectFladernbunker, Kiel, Germany (2008); Dar
Al Funoon, Kuwait (2007); His Life is Full of Miracles,
Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK (2006);Kent Explora
, Strange Fruit, Lebanon (2002).She has also participated
in Braziers International Artists workshop, UK (2003)
and AIW:A, the International Artists workshop, Aley
(2005).
"In
Samerraei's work we are always in front of the borderline
between twin realms. The prevalent ambiguity of
her spaces and what inhabits them stands between
the familiar and the improbable. Her work takes
us into a world of childhood, but is it? Or it is
an adult who is reminiscing? Are her spaces undefined
surfaces like suggested memories, or is it what
we know by heart and eyes since we were born. She
poses difficult questions with a lightness and playfulness
that leave her scenes seeping into our visual world
with ease, and yet, unsettling." Abdallah
Kahil
Venue:
Agial Art Gallery, 63 Abdel Aziz St., Hamra, Beirut,
Lebanon.
Tel: +9611345213
