Etar exhibition at Alkhobar

Linguists say that anything that surrounds something is a frame.

While you wonder at Hussain Al Ismail’s first exhibition named Etar ”frame” held at Desert designs gallery here from April 18 -28, you are reminded that not only do arts transcend and intertwine but everything in this universe is pushed to either concur or confront, even in the game of daily communication and the social cybernetic spaces.

The exhibition accommodates the alternation between social criticism and artistic practice that never ceases to show its artistic tendency to mix image, sound, and performance together.

Since Hussain is obsessed with the game of frames, we are unconsciously pushed to step into a frame of no definite shape; a stage open to the paradoxical melody of musical argument between the flute and the cello and a mural built for anonymous electronic debates and the actions forming and establishing a cluster of photographic frames in which the material frame itself becomes a tiny unit among multiplying frames on the edge of repetition and contrast.

It was Al Ismail’s wish not to restrain himself to any frame but to combine all the arts and the situations with a high desire to give the theatrical sense a major presence in his artistic space starting with a musical piece under the spotlight.

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Etar exhibition at Alkhobar