Farid text Ou veux-tu

The exhibition is named after the painting-collage work (in nine parts) “Où veux-tu que je m’en aille?” (pour l’âge du Liban) (2018-2019). Haddad’s collage works are a culmination of his lifelong exploration of abstraction, and his sustained conversation with color, shapes and forms. Over the years, he has developed a strict process of painterly composition that comes together through extensive preparation. Each collage work starts out with a foundational painting using acrylics, oil, gouache, watercolor, graphite, among other media. The paintings form the basis of a stencil cut and paste technique. Multi-shaped painting fragments are carefully reassembled into a new whole. The compositions themselves become a measure of time, each taking up to several months to complete.