Convergence Exhibition at Eklekta Gallery

Join the Eklekta Gallery as it hosts a photography exhibition by Noel Nasr called “Convergence”. The exhibition will showcase Nasr’s photographs which are inspired by the artwork of Afaf Zurayk.

“Convergence” is essentially a work of interpretation. The interpretation of an interpretation; a convergence of interpretations. Where the painter visualized one thing in the driftwood, the eye of the photographer saw another, personal and eidetic landscape. A world of fantasies all his own. Already infused with the painter’s emotions, the photographed driftwood gains in intensity.

Each image, each interpretation becomes in itself a multitude of emotions – not one feeling or meaning, but a blend of contrasting emotional elements fused into a single visual outcome. An ambiguous visual outcome, because some ambiguity is essential to leave room for others’ interpretation. To leave room for spectators to enter the images in the imagination, as William Blake would have it. For if he or she could do that, “or could make a Friend and Companion of these images […] then he (or she) would be happy”.