Akram Halabi, Between a Puppet and a Human

I try to destroy the nature of form, searching for a new nature that would create for me an unexpected meaning…generate contradictions where it would be difficult to expect that they could be found to exist in harmony.  They clash and scream, the body becomes a puppet!

The viewer is puzzled about whether this figure is a puppet or a human being.  It is the possibility of a visual memory of neurological spasms, the roots of which came about in 2003.  These cases collided with the reality of the life of plastics.  Clear mechanical lines have entered into the organic body to build its fabric and to create a possible nervous, spasmodic, painful, ironic, plastic figure - closer to a puppet.

Questions present themselves in this context. They are the main motives that incite questioning.  What....why... and how...?

I depend on living details that affect me personally and that influence the context to which I belong in order to answer these questions.  Through these details, I try to reject reality, expose it, and question its credibility. Art might shed light on an unexpected and sudden possibility and so open the way to question the very roots of the idea, and the search for a different meaning and vision of things.

Akram Halabi
* 1981 Majd El-Shams, Golan Heights; studying art in Vienna, Austria.