Ammar Al-Beik

1 - 19 May 2008
Ammar Al Beik is a photographer who comes from another place. Neither traditional subjects tempt him, nor do familiar aesthetics mean anything to him. He rides his thoughts - ideas to take untraveled roads, to his own place. Al Beik, is like a modern Don Quixote that carries his stick and hurries towards ideas. His photographs are complex. They require a lot of contemplation, design, and re-design in many ways, as if he is making a film in each photo. We see photos of the woman between the past and the present, the enslaved and victimized woman, as well as photos of artists immersed in their own realms, and ideas stripped of consumption in addition to symbolic blackness that besieges light. Each photograph is an unexpected artwork that does not resemble its predecessor, yet they are all related with a mysterious thread. During the opening, a 45-minutes documentary film will be showed, produced and directed by the artist, entitled: Video Game. It documents 15 plastic artists whose identities are their works. Body language is what unites their presence.