Masks have long been anchored in tradition, whether used for entertainment or for ritual.
They have different meanings depending on their origins. In Venice, masks are used in the annual carnival. In Africa, people often wear ceremonial masks to represent spirits or to embody the dead.
Oil Portrait
Though masks don’t play a large part in Lebanon’s cultural history, Lebanese artist Fadia Haddad has for years been haunted by the symbolism of the mask (among other motifs such as birds) and it is this obsession that is displayed in Hamra’s Agial Art Gallery in a retrospective of her works (from 2000 until today) entitled “Le Chemin des Masques” (The Path of Masks).
Oil Portraits
This solo exhibition showcases 30 untitled mixed-media on paper works – 30 different masks which “bare our history,” as Haddad wrote in the exhibition catalogue.
Gallerist Saleh Barakat explained how the materials on which Haddad works are important.
All these masks were painted on 19th- and early 20th-century paper, a way for the artist to show how history and origins are important to her. Focusing on certain works, the viewer may notice that she has painted her obsessive leitmotivs on bank statements, charts and musical sheets.
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