Highlights from Bashir Makhoul's ‘The Promise' at Zawyeh Gallery
'Drift'
The Galilee-born British-Palestinian artist's solo show's title, according to the gallery, 'encapsulates a poetic and ambiguous statement of intent — an assertion that is both an event and a transformation. A promise is made and, inevitably, can be broken.' That is the duality at the heart of Makhoul's practice, as is the recurring motif of the house.
'Deep Wounds'
This work is part of a series of painted wooden sculptures, each of which bears a carved hollow scar, disrupting its 'wholeness.' 'These wounds are marks not just of trauma but also spaces of beginnings, resonating with Edward Said's notion of origins as an act of cutting open, a rupture that invites multiple directions.'
'My Olive Tree'
Makhoul has been experimenting with electroplated 3D printing to produce crystalline machine-generated structures that 'paradoxically resemble organic formations' such as those seen in this work representing Makhoul's own tree which stands between two plots of land he does not own.
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