I Wish to Be Happy, I Want to Be Yellow curated by Jad Karam

The artists blur temporal boundaries between presence and absence, fullness and lack, past and present, engaging in generative rites that foster creation, fertility, and renewal. Bodies morph, adapt, and redefine themselves, existing in states of transition and transformation—an ongoing flux of becoming. They embody the power of attraction and interaction, functioning as entities that react and interact with their surroundings.

Psychiatrist R. Lifton, in his book The Protean Self: Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation, notes, “We are becoming fluid and many-sided. Without quite realizing it, we have been evolving a sense of self appropriate to the restlessness and flux of our time.”

The works incorporate altered materials that reveal the impermanence and fluidity of the environment—food, twigs, ants, flowers, leaves, and candle wax—that are transformed and integrated into installations, photography, sculpture, assemblages, collages, textiles, and paintings.

Banner Image Credit: Snippet of Tamara Kalo
Current Sea (2024)
Silk on cotton - NO.5
90 x 150 cm