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Wabi Sabi 08 Sculpture

Josephina Charabati

Lebanon

Sculpture, Wood on Steel

Size: 14 W x 25 H x 1.5 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

“Take an object / Do something to it / Do something else to it. [Repeat].(Jasper Johns, sketchbook note, 1964). This chapter focuses on assemblages from found objects. No change is brought to the “remains” primitive aspect. In a will for authenticity and truth, the steel welded parts are kept visible as well as the traces of random sawing.How can objects shape us? Do they behold the power of time passing by? Can we disrupt the initial function of the object leading to a new order, a new energy and new relationships?Do objects have a memory and a cognitive ability to impact our past and future through storing information? Can memories retained in objects be retrieved, communicated, re-assembled? From a spiritual point of view, the approach is built around the Wabi Sabi Buddhist philosophy that celebrates the passage of time. An ode to beauty in imperfection and impermanence, the very reflection of the cycle of life. A reference to notions such as simplicity, stripping, imbalance or even asymmetry. Accept with benevolence what is, accept the passage of time. "Wabi" refers to humility and "Sabi" to acceptance. From this "transformation of objects" in time and space a new energy is born. The Wabi Sabi "assemblages" are created essentially from wood and metal residues. Unique pieces from my 2023 exhibition in Zurich.

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Wood on Steel

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14 W x 25 H x 1.5 D in

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BIO Artist, architect and designer, Josephina Charabati was born in Germany from a German mother and a Lebanese father. She moved to Lebanon as a child and grew up in Beirut. In1991, she graduated in Architecture and attended in parallel Psychology courses at the Lebanese University in Beirut. She worked in Architecture practices in Germany & Lebanon before establishing DASTUDIO in 2000.A workshop where, architecture, design & art meet in a perpetual process of research and experimentation. University teacher since 2017. She started exhibiting her art work in 2000. Instagram: .art PHILOSOPHY From wall objects, to sculptures, ink drawings and found objects assemblage, Josephina Charabati infinitely explores about our path and transformation through distance and time. Her work tackles social and philosophical themes such as migration, recurrence and the wabi sabi concept of acceptance and resilience. THE EXODUS COLLECTION “Where do we go now?” The English name Exodus comes from the late Latin “Exodus” or from ancient Greek “Exodos” meaning “going out, expedition, departure", "mass migration, exiting of people from an area”. With reference to Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of eternal recurrence or the idea that the universe and its events have already occurred and will recur ad infinitum, the artist questions about the migration phenomena over the eras, specially over the last decades in the Middle East region. In this part of the world constantly shaken by social, religious, economic and political issues, mass migration is faced every day. As an architect, she expresses the interaction of the “human” with space, scale, voids, infinity and above all, silence. Humans in their eternal seek within an abstract context. From an existentialist point of view, the individual's starting point is characterized by what has been called "the existential attitude" or a sense of disorientation, confusion, or dread in the face of an apparently absurd world. A wink to the “Unbearable Lightness of Being” of Milano Kundera to whom “The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become” Yet the Exodus meaning in Josephina Charabati’s work reaches a wider aspect to embrace the human journey in it seek for the harbor, the inner balance, peace.

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