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From November 18 to 22, The LT Gallery presents a new artistic gesture curated by Dr. Tony Karam, who encountered, recognized, and encouraged a young creator with an uncommon relationship to material, perception, and presence. This exhibition unfolds as an immersive encounter where light becomes the primary vocabulary, matter becomes memory, and images seem to emerge from a threshold between visibility and disappearance. Rather than depicting reality, the works reveal what lies beneath it, using the silent intensity of reflection, transparency, and fragmentation as the foundation of a developing signature.
The Poetics of Fragmented Illumination
At first glance, the viewer is met with what appears to be a constellation of broken particles of class suspended in darkness. However, as the eye adjusts, portraits and figures surface gradually, as though assembled from microscopic traces of shattered glass or crystallized dew. This method avoids any reliance on conventional contouring, shading, or anatomical structure; Instead, the forms are constructed through accumulations of luminous fragments that cluster into depth, emotion, and identity. Features such as eyes, lips, and cheekbones exist not as drawn shapes, but as concentrations of reflected light, suggesting that human presence can be formed from the intangible.
The darkness surrounding each figure becomes essential. It does not act as a background but as a spatial field that absorbs, hosts, and sculpts light. In this multiplicity, the works move from being read as portraits to being experienced as apparitions: fragile, vibrating, unresolved, and alive.
A Material Language Born from Craft
Although the techniques appear ethereal, they are rooted in deep familiarity with material, specifically glass and its optical, reflective, and emotional properties. What could have remained a skill inherited from family craft becomes in these works a conceptual transformation: fragments no longer serve construction, protection, or transparency, but instead become vehicles of meaning. Light, once a functional requirement of architecture and glazing, transforms into the main sculptural tool.
By dispersing and controlling it, the artist reveals both the poetic and architectural nature of luminosity. The works are not painted in the traditional sense; they are composed, built, and engineered, echoing both artistic intuition and artisanal precision. The result challenges perception: one is invited not to look at the works, but into them.
Figures Between Presence and Silence
Among the compositions, faces dominate with quiet intensity. They offer no narrative, no declared identity, and no explicit emotion, yet they provoke a deep sense of internal dialogue. Standing figures, reduced to linear silhouettes, communicate through vertical flow and bodily posture rather than gesture or facial expression. Light is the gesture.
These figures seem caught between emergence and dissolution, as though deciding whether to step into the world or retreat into darkness. The images acknowledge fragility not as weakness, but as a state of transformation.
Curatorship as Catalyst
By presenting this work, Dr. Tony Karam not only curates but effectively unveils the artist. His role positions this exhibition as a point of discovery and foundation, rather than culmination. The works remain open, exploratory, and not exclusive, yet already articulate a singular voice that blends craft, emotion, and innovation. What unfolds on the gallery walls is the first surface of a vision that will continue to sharpen, fracture, and illuminate, and hopefully transcend the norms and venture into the world of abstraction, for the artist is clearly capable, it is brewing within him and waiting to come out to the open.
