Artist
Samar Mogarbel (b.1958)
Exhibition Title: "Interception"
Title: "Intercepted III"
Media: Glazed ceramics
Opening: Thursday 27 October, 2011 at 6:00
pm
The exhibition is on through November 12th, 2011
Agial Gallery Beirut
Interception is a daily incident, being it on the
road, in business, in discussions, in wars etc...
It is to stop/redirect/seize on the way from one
place to another; 'prevent from arriving or proceeding'.
The
nature of the clay material, the effort of production,
the narrative and personal content is intended to
create a commentary on our present condition.
This
exhibition contains 3 main ideas:
1-
The kids and water / direct interception.
These
are sculptures of kids playing with water weapons.
The trajectory of the water is being intercepted
b y the opponent's one.
2-
The Islamic battered helmets / cultural interception.
This
is a series of thirty or more wheel thrown, battered
and hollowed helmets. A depiction of our worn out
Islamic 'armies' / communities marching towards
'change' that are intercepted at all times by culture,
beliefs, politics etc...
3-
Ghostly visions of police / interceptors.
A
series helmets with negative imprints of heads producing
positive sculptures. The light has a crucial importance
as it produces an optical illusion of a 3 dimensional
face moving when the spectator moves.
The
work is far more than just the idea making intricate
shapes that either channels water, or produces ghostly
visions; it is a depiction of the present times.
Clay
or ceramics as a material by itself does not give
enough room for exploration. I have always had the
urge to add different materials to it, starting
with the use of basalt rocks, then video, then bronze
casting, now water, polishing and light.
Agial
Art Gallery - Lebanese and Arab Contemporary Art
63
Abdul Aziz street, Hamra district, Beirut, Lebanon
Telefax:
+9611345213 - Mobile: +9613634244
E-mail:
agial@cyberia.net.lb
Contact
person: Saleh M. Barakat - Carol A. Chehab
