Boudoir by Mazen Fayad – Solo Exhibition

Boudoir is Mazen Fayad’s initiation into the art world although he has been immersed behind the scenes for a while now. Award winning Creative and Film Director, Mazen Fayad completed his studies between Beirut, London, and New York and has worked with some of the most prestigious commercial brands on the market.

In Boudoir, Mazen merges the film director’s keen eye for photography and his expertise in film production to create a series of works in black and white surrounding the female figure. Over the years, Mazen has been taking photographs of women while on the set of his commercial videos shoots, thus nurturing his adoration for the woman’s body.

In this series, Mazen succeeds at pushing his concept beyond pure representation by exploring the technologies available to him. By transferring the enlarged photographs into the disused Bitmap format, a layer is added to the works: from a close distance the photograph appears like an abstract wave of structured objects, while from a distance, the portraits are perceived in their entirety with features obscured by pixilation.

There lies a strong interactive perception of the work allowing viewers in a to and fro movement to come close enough to these women, enticed by the technology used, almost wanting to penetrate the environment represented, but restricted from their content when too close to the piece.