Samia Halaby Farid Haddad
SAMIA HALABY
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January 12 – April 15, 2023
beirut
Farid text Ou veux-tu 2
The collage works are an intriguing time portal. Each work is an index of unique signs —shapes, colors, gestures—that have cumulatively developed throughout Haddad’s practice. The grammar of irregular shapes, arcs, zigzags, demonstrates a striking amalgam of memory and geometric sensibility. When asked of his technique, Haddad will assert “I don’t have a formula, I don’t have a story.” His work emanates a certain quality of feeling, of a situation, landscape, subject, or sense of time.
Farid headline Summer series
Summer series, 1971