Ready, Aim, Fire artwork by Jean Boghossian displayed at Anima Gallery.
Aiming to create a space for dialogue and reflection on the themes of change, upheaval, and transformation defining the current epoch, Anima Gallery at Msheireb Downtown, unveiled Eruption, an exhibition showcasing various artistic disciplines including sculptures and digital painting.
On the occasion of the launch Ghada Sholy, Founder and Director at Anima Gallery, said: “Eruption is an exhibition to showcase the effects of social media like Instagram and TikTok. It is about how it affects our art and lives socially, physically, emotionally, and politically in every single way. We have the work of 18 artists and every artist is interpreting the word eruption.”
Numerous sculptural installations and artworks were displayed at the gallery including Odalisque, a gold metallic real leather, varied-density polyurethane form filling artwork by Anastasia Nysten, Ready, Aim, Fire, a combination of colour, pigment, fire, and smoke, acrylic on canvas by Jean Boghossian and Media Shout, painted stainless steel by Nadim Karam.
Speaking to The Peninsula on the artwork by Boghossian, Garo Bardakjin, International Relations for the Belgian-Lebanese artists’ work said that “As fire as the medium, it is one of the most destructive things you can play around.”
He expounded that “This piece is ready, aim, fire, which depicts somehow an abstract version of cannon fire. The moment when a cannon explodes, there’s a split second when the smoke comes out. Basically, it’s saying, when you are ready to pursue your passion, which for him was art and you aim for it and fire, that’s when beauty comes out.”
Visitors were also briefed about several other artworks including ‘bio digital’, a digital printed on acrylic glass by Nourbanu Hijazi, and ‘Continous Eruption’, an oil, acrylic, cellulose, wood, Styrofoam, on wood panel by Tamara Haddad.
“The concept behind it is me looking into this whole speculative imagined future in which human beings are adapting digital technologies into their own bodies,” Hijazi, creator of the picturesque artwork ‘bio digital’, told The Peninsula.
“The concept came about of how our online basis like social media accounts has come as part of our lives and identities and how that’s been blending into our lives,” she added.
The exhibition that launched yesterday will be displayed at the gallery until June 10.
