What Takes Shape

What Takes Shape brings together five artists whose practices unfold through material, movement, and memory. Across painting, textile, abstraction, and assemblage, form appears not as a fixed image, but as something that slowly emerges through gesture, repetition, circulation, and lived experience. At the center of the exhibition is a conversation between material and meaning. In Ghanem Hassan’s Celebration, abstraction becomes a space of resilience and interior presence. Catherine Karam translates weaving traditions into a luminous geometric rhythm, while Raya Matta turns to cloth and the human figure to reveal the quiet weight of identity, expectation, and survival. Haytham Sharrouf and Georges Yammine extend this dialogue into sculptural memory and symbolic imagination. Routes of exchange, pearls, fabric, mineral light, childhood relics, and metallic fragments become languages of connection and transformation. Here, form becomes both vessel and reflection, allowing memory, culture, and feeling to come quietly yet clearly into view.