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.

VIP Vernissage:

7pm, Friday, 20 March 2026

2nd Floor, Soho House, Hong Kong

Curated by Randa Sadaka and presented by Artbridger on the occasion of Hong Kong Art Week, What Takes Shape brings together Ghanem Hassan, Catherine Karam, Raya Matta, Haytham Sharrouf, and Georges Yammine in a collective exhibition shaped by material, memory, and movement.

We warmly invite you to experience the exhibition in person and enter a resonant space where form, culture, and feeling meet.