BAAL: "Sense of an Ending"    Oct 7 - Nov 5, 2011

This is the first solo show in the UK for Baal (Mohamad-Said Baalbaki).

Like many of his generation who grew up in Lebanon during the civil war, Baal witnessed the horror, loss and displacement that violent conflicts bring. In an ironic twist of fate, since studying at the Berlin University of Arts, Baal has lived in the German capital – a city that has also witnessed atrocity and widespread destruction.

In “Sense of an Ending”, piles of suitcases, radios, toys and other possessions – sometimes abandoned, sometimes neatly collected – are reminders of their absent owners. With a palette of pastel colours, Baal delicately depicts impressions of an interrupted childhood beset by instability and the transience of possessions, underling the fragility of the human condition during war and peace.