Portrait Of Beirut, Hala Ezzeddine20 at Saleh Barakat Gallery

The work of Hala Ezzedine exists only barely within the world of perspective, hovering between abstraction and recognisable form. The drawings and paintings in her forthcoming exhibition [title here tbc] for Saleh Barakat Gallery, rendered in acrylic, pencil and sanguine, are landscapes, and so retain the possibility of the viewer entering the scene. Yet, the subject remains resolutely obtuse, fleeting.

Ezzadine’s powerful cityscapes forgo the shape of the world for its volume, depth and space, and her work exhibits a powerful yet glancing quality. Colour and tone work seamlessly to guide the viewer in and around the picture plane giving each work a pure energy that is, one feels, unique to that image alone.