MAKING STONE SPEAK

Sculptor Athar Jaber captures the beauty and the grotesque of contemporary society.
Charles Shafaieh, Hadara Magazine, April 14, 2025

In its most recent issue, Hadara Magazine delves into Athar Jaber's artistic practice. Amidst dust-covered surfaces and the many tools used to shape his work, Jaber walks readers through the sculpting process and shares the motivations behind the distortions he creates in his figures.

 

Countless hours of physical labor pave the way toward the completion of these beautiful yet grotesque forms.

 

Athar Jaber explains that beauty emerges from a human illusion, his work capturing this allegorical moment, inscribing a deeper sense of humanity into each piece.