Memory Lapse
Nadim Karam
8th October – 27th December 2018
“In a lapse of memory, there is an ambiguous space where things lose definition and absurdity comes into play.
For the Memory Lapse exhibition at Anima Gallery in Doha, I found myself in a whirlwind of thoughts. Standing perpetually in the present I am carried through time, and lost in it. I am continuously physically immersed in the present moment, but in my thoughts, the past and future co-exist with that moment. There are memories, perceptions, knowledge and imaginings, whirling around me in a dizzy sandstorm, colored by moods and experiences.
While painting this series, I was in the eye of a sandstorm, tracing threads of stories and their unfolding imagery through an abstract and constantly shifting airborne landscape.
This exhibition began with Memory Lapse, diverged into Stretching Thoughts, and finished with a Sandstorm. They all form a continuum of expression in my work.”
Memory Lapse
(Trou de Mémoire, sculpture)
“In a lapse of memory, there is an ambiguous space where things lose definition and absurdity comes into play.
Memory and Void stand face to face. Concentric traces of thirty years of creative output confront an empty spatial field. They are anchored by the void, the generator of all possibilities, and connected by a temporal umbilical cord. The future paradoxically reflects the past, and between them lies the moment.”
Stretching Thoughts
Painting and sculptures
“Stretching Thoughts is about the human mind and the limitless possibilities that thoughts can generate.
While the body is anchored in the roots of the place, with its context and pressures from political, social, religious and other influences, thoughts reach beyond borders and oceans, trying to grasp of the boundaries of our universe.
The series of paintings and sculptures express the power of the connectivity that we carry within us, the importance of stories and the will to confront situations much larger than ourselves.”
Nadim Karam
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