Unpredictable Expression...
SB13 Act II, exposición en el Beirut Art Center, 14 octubre 2017 - 19 enero 2018. Curador: Hicham Khalidi, Curadora asociada: Natasha Hoare
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The 1st Lady. 2017
Foam, cast silicon, paper, pvc, velvet ribbon, steel, used work glove
Silicone Pantalone. 2017
(in the background)
Foam, cast silicon, spray paint, toilet paper
More than a display of artworks, Armes Blanches (meaning ‘cold weapons’) comes across as some kind of theatrical improvisation… the devilish red half-mask Silicone Pantalone invokes the eponymous commedia dell’arte character: a greedy, crooked old fool, merchant and butt of all jokes in the harlequinade genre. Against his will and his penny-pinching values, yet right under his hooked nose and prominent eyebrows, The 1st Lady completes the expected farce: what can only be Pantalone’s disobedient daughter Columbine is surreptitiously eloping with Harlequin – not a guard per se, but certainly a servant.
These ‘figures’, though, fixed on steel pipes leaning against the wall, are quite abstract: Columbine is represented by a paper wedding veil, her beloved trickster by a used and dirty work glove that caresses (or delicately soils) her.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
SB13 Act II, exposición en el Beirut Art Center, 14 octubre 2017 - 19 enero 2018. Curador: Hicham Khalidi, Curadora asociada: Natasha Hoare