Athar Jaber, the weight of the world

This exhibition is an exploration of the fragile relationship between the human form and the forces that shape it. The focus of this exhibition is in fact the body: broken, fragmented, vulnerable. A non-random representation where the raw violence present in Athar's sculptures - shattered limbs, distorted faces and abandoned torsos - is trapped in a paradox: the body is beauty and illusion. An existential mirror where the artist - certainly influenced by the portraits of Francis Bacon - exposes his inner conflicts through writhing forms, bodies that are broken, lacerated, shattered. An exploration of destruction that is not without hope. Athar's human forms emerge and retreat, they are fragmented, eroded and incomplete, but they are alive. Sculptures that appear as remains of something that was once whole, as if time had consumed them, to reveal beauty in their incompleteness. Archaeology of a humanity that is probably lost but that can perhaps be rebuilt.