Designed by Jamal Tayara-Baroudy (ArtLikeThis)
Photos: Ismail Noor / Seeing Things
Published by Lawrie Shabibi
The world in which Mehdi Moutashar’s works develop is more one of angles, folds and openings than one of pedestals and frames and screens. To put it more candidly, the artist is more concerned with voids than with solids and, even more specifically, he shows a preference for the points where the visible is afoot, woven on the visible itself. Far from being confined to the space into which his works invite themselves, his works may even reveal certain unsuspected qualities of the surrounding space. But the spatial laws most scrupulously observed by Moutashar’s works remain their own laws, timepiece, and inner compass. Laws resulting neither from an alchemic secret, nor from esoteric mathematics, but from a mental exercise whose rationale is to be found in a one-dimensional ethics of the artwork.
