Athar Jaber
Vestiges
4 FEB – 1 APR 2025
Ayyam Gallery is pleased to present Vestiges, a solo exhibition featuring newly signed Athar Jaber’s largest body of work.
About the exhibition
Athar re-imagines the human form, creating figures that transcend mere physical disfigurement and serve as symbolic representations of how individuals are torn apart by the weight of the world. As his largest body of work to date, this series is an exploration of the fragile relationship between the human form and the forces that shape it. This exhibition’s core is the human body, portrayed as broken, fragmented, and vulnerable. This rendering is not accidental; the raw violence present in Athar’s sculptures expressed through shattered limbs, distorted faces, and torsos seem caught in a paradox: they are sculpted to embody an ideal of beauty, but their fractured state suggests that this beauty is, in fact, an illusion.
Athar is equally invested in capturing existential depth, influenced by Francis Bacon’s use of psychological portraiture to expose internal conflicts through contorted forms and features. His approach also merges classical influences, particularly Michelangelo’s Prisoners Series, known for its powerful, unrefined quality.
About Ayyam Gallery
Founded in 2006, Ayyam Gallery is a leading arts organisation that manages the careers of diverse established and emerging artists. A blue-chip art space in Dubai, a series of collaborative projects in the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia, and a multinational non-profit arts programme have furthered the gallery’s mandate of expanding the parameters of international art. With its widely respected multilingual publishing division and a custodianship programme that manages the estates of pioneering artists, Ayyam Gallery has also contributed to recent efforts that document underrepresented facets of global art history.
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