TAREK MOURAD     



    rooms of neglect [2018]

    		 These works aim at a “second hand” look of the quotidian domestic scenes by drawing, or painting straight from a photograph. This allows for a forensic view into “Rooms of Neglect” a crime-scene view of our familiar private places.

    These bathroom scenes, although not personally ours, have this uncanny similarity to our own bathrooms; that we use every day. This familiarity lies specifically in the neglect that these rooms suffer from and per se, are reflected directly upon us.

    The result are paintings and etchings that have a direct connection to their origin in the photographs of random bathrooms that could be ours, the unknown as our very own.

    This exhibition was shown at Artlab gallery, Beirut - Lebanon.
    toilet ii - 40 x 50 cm - oil on canvas.
    sink ii - 10.5 x 16 cm - etching and aquatint on copper printed on cotton paper - edition of 5 + a.p.
    bathtub i - 40 x 50 cm - oil on canvas.
    bathtub i - 20 x 27 cm - aquatint on copper plate printed on cotton paper - edition of 3 +a.p.
    sink v - 40 x 50 cm - oil on canvas.
    toilet iii - 40 x 50 cm - oil on canvas.
    sink v - 40 x 50 cm - oil on canvas.
    faucet - 10 x 14 cm - etching and aquatint on copper printed on cotton paper - edition of 5 + a.p.
    bathtub ii - 40 x 50 cm - oil on canvas.
    sink vi - 40 x 50 cm - oil on canvas.
    sink vii - 40 x 50 cm - oil on canvas.
    toilet iv - 40 x 50 cm - oil on canvas.
    sink 1 - 40 x 50 cm - oil on canvas.
    toilet i - 40 x 50 cm - oil on canvas.
    sink i - 26.5 x 29 cm - etching and aquatint on copper printed on cotton paper - edition of 3 + a.p.
    forensic photo #1 - 12 x 18 cm - toner relay and aquatint on copper printed on cotton paper - edition of 3 + a.p.
    forensic photo #2 - 12 x 18 cm - toner relay and aquatint on copper printed on cotton paper - edition of 3 + a.p.
    forensic photo #3 - 12 x 18 cm - toner relay and aquatint on copper printed on cotton paper - edition of 3 + a.p.