Aref el Rayess – Paintings from 1999
AREF EL RAYESS
Labyrinths
Paintings from 1999
Downtown, December 14, 2023 – February 17, 2024
beirut
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First presented under the title Labyrinths, they are described at the time by Joseph Tarrab as “networks, which duplicate those of nature, science and industry [and in which] man is prisoner, as he struggles with an unprecedented identity crisis triggered by processes of globalization”, but also as “talismans, mandalas that allow to exorcise these fundamental contradictions”.
