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Untitled
Venue Albareh Art Gallery - Manama - Bahrain Other offers Map
Start date 15-02-2015
End date 08-05-2025
“Untitled”
An Exhibition of the works of
Semaan Khawam and Mohammed Tamimi
Opens at Albareh Art Gallery
Albareh Art Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Untitled, an exhibition of the works of Semaan Khawam and Mohammad Tamimi on Tuesday, February 10 with an opening reception at 7 p.m. at its Adliya premises. The exhibition will continue until the 5th of March 2015.
Untitled is a joint exhibition of the latest works of two artists, the Lebanese Semaan Khawam and Jordanian Mohammad Tamimi.
Intensely personal, Tamimi’s acrylic on canvas paintings is an exploration of his own identity. ‘One cannot fully understand oneself without delving into ‘the other’’, that part of the psyche that is not immediately obvious or visible except through introspection. It is through this process of exploration that Tamimi traverses an allegorical inner world populated by impish creatures who squint at the viewer over their large noses, disengaged, as if unperturbed by the intrusion.
While the artist calls them ‘foreboding’, his description belies his obvious sense of fun and a fiendish sense of humour. His inner world appears to be haunted not by the tormented demons of repressed Freudian desires but by placid genderless creatures that appear to have wandered out of a dark fairytale and had trouble finding their way back. They confront the viewer as if to ask, ‘What did you expect to find?’, teasing, goading him to venture deeper; there may yet be monsters to be found deeper within, if one dares to look.
Semaan Khawam approaches self-exploration from another angle choosing instead to look at his condition from outside rather than an exploration of his inner world. The artist has long coveted the flight of birds, associating this ability to glide through space without consideration for physical or ideological boundaries with the freedom to think and dream.
However, Khawam’s bird is no longer safe traversing the heavens and so the artist is keenly aware that the bird is only free within the confines of his painting. The man-bird hybrid in Khawam’s paintings is the formal embodiment of this state of existence – where the weight of his corporeal body keeps him trapped in his reality.
About the Artists
Mohammad Tamimi was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1988. In 2010, he received his Bachelor of Art in Graphic Design from Philadelphia University and, on his return to Jordan, began working as a gallery assistant at Foresight 32 Gallery and Orient Gallery in Amman. He has continued to pursue his artistic practice, creating and exhibiting works since his graduation with exhibitions in Jordan, Russia and Bahrain.
Semaan Khawam was born in Damascus, Syria in 1974 and moved to Beirut, Lebanon in 1988 where he continues to live and work. The self-taught multidisciplinary Khawam is a painter, sculptor, graffiti and installation artist whose work is informed by the daily reality of the city in which he lives.
In addition to being a visual artist, the multi-talented Khawam is also an actor, scriptwriter, prop designer for film and theatre, poet and internationally published writer. His art has been exhibited in Lebanon, Europe and Bahrain.
Ironically, Khawam’s controversial arrest for spray painting an image of a soldier on a wall in Gemeyzeh in early 2012 and the subsequent social media campaign brought international attention to the constraints on freedom of speech artists confront in the Middle East.
Albareh Art Gallery opened its doors to the public in 1998 and has since continued to play a leading role in establishing and consolidating the market in fine art in the region with networks that extend internationally.