Ghassan Ghazal

Ghassan Ghazal was born in 1961 in Lebanon and has lived in Canada from 1979 until 2006. He holds a Bachelor and Master degrees in Visual Arts from the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). His main artistic practices are: painting, sculpture, photography and installation art. Recipient of numerous prizes, he has taken part in over 20 solo and collective installations in Canada and abroad. His pieces are part of many private collections in Canada and abroad. At present, he lives and teaches at the Lebanese American University in Beirut.

"Breath"

Violence in its ugliness

Violence (one-way mirror of power) reflects its presence through different facets: social, political, psychological and economical. The nature of this focal point is egocentric, narcissistic, and autistic as it ruptures with its own environment and draws its strength and weakness, at the expense of others, through the application of the law of the strongest.

My installation underlies a metaphorical image of the stake of war and its power. The duality of the stake and the power is similar to an iron fist in a velvety glove.   A power that weaves its plot on the fate of humanity and a war that frays it.

The metaphorical dimension of the human body represented by the transparent box and the plucked feathers create forcefully a symbolic narration of the psychological and physical pain.