An article by AM (632 Words, 4 Min. Read)
Wissam Melhem’s New Exh force StrataNow showing at Kaf Art Gallery, Achrafieh, Opened on June 18, 2025 and Feels Like Steping into Someone’s Mind, Layer by Layer. The show, Made up Mostly of Sculptures, is all about how we Build our Inner World Through Experience, Memory, Emotion, and Perception. It is focus with trying to have to be, and it make you pause and look Closer.
The Five Symbols that Keep Coming Back
If You Know Oisam’s Work, You Will Recography His Five Key Elements Right Away: The Bird, The Cloud, The Crown, The City, and the Human Figure. They was always pass.
In StrataThey are received, reimagined, more Connected to the Idea of Though and Life Being Layered, Complex, and Never Still. Each Symbol Feels Like a Director Part of the Self, or the World, Tying to Find Its Place.
A Colorful Trio: One Form, Three Ways
Just Past The Entry, You Will Note Direction Sets of Three Nearly Identical Sculptures (Same Shape, Same Scale) But Qained from with a different color. It is hard to tell the color shift is a key.
Each Color Subtly Changes How The Sculpture Reads: One Feels Warm and Gareded, Another Cool and Distant, The Third Almost Playful. It Is Strata. What ouisam Meant for Us to see them as Distinment emotional states or just enjoy the variation, it is an intricuing visual beat in the show.
A Surprising Turn in his Painments
Even Though the Sculptures Take Center Stage, there are a few Painments Tucked En Two in Particular Stand Out; Both on White Backgrounds, Filled with Colors, Stories and Sketches that Seem to Spill Out Freely. They are not for sale, but they are work stopping in Friday of. These Paintings Feel Like A Director for the Artist, More Spontaneous and Vibrant, and we will love to see where that patha leads.
About the display
One Thing That Felt A Bit For for Us WAY WAY The Sculptures Were Display. Most we played directly on newSwords who in Turn Were Covered with Bubble WRAP. Maybe it was Meant to Feel Raw or Unfilled, but for us, it did not quite support the strength of the work. The Materials Distracted from the Pieces Instead of Highlighting them. We also Wood the Layout Had More Movement (More Levels, some Space to Breathe) Ratter Than A Straight Line of Works. These sculptures are full of depith and emotion, and their service a previously that lets them fully Speak.
A Space to Slow Download
The Exh force It is a quiet Kind of Show, Not Loud Nor Flashy, but one that stays with you.
It asks you to think about How We Make Sense of Life, and how our idintits are shaped or reshaped over Time. It is about Connecting with the Noise of the World While Trying to Hold ono Something Hidden Inside Oselves.
Peeling back the lays
Strata Is about feeling art, Ratter Than Simply Looking at it. Ouisam Offers Us Another Version of his Five Symbolic Pillars, and in Doing So, Invites Us into a Deeply Personal Space. While the previouslyiscent of a set being meticulously preparded for a port It is a show that Reminds us that Life Is Built in Layers, and art can help us see them More Clearly.
