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Mark Hachem Gallery - Beirut is delighted to present 鈥淲ritings鈥�, a solo exhibition by Lebanese artist George Merheb, featuring a new body of works. Haunted by letters, and their dimension in time and space, their energy beyond their shape, George Merheb offers a systematic demolition of traditional writings in his works for the benefit of a new global language. 

Daisy Abi Jaber writes: 鈥淔or George Merheb, writing and drawing have shared destinies. He juggles with lines, colors and letters with a dizzying mixture of features and curves. His brush navigates the canvas in a falsely chaotic way, eliminating alphabets, codified drawings that refer to ideas or simply an expression or impression that becomes a performance. Merheb鈥檚 rebellion against words and the norm of their significance proposes a new insight into the artist鈥檚 manifestation, without falling into the rules and codes of their everyday usage. The brush strokes dance their way through the canvas to surpass what we are so accustomed to seeing with letters and words. Abi Jaber continues to write 鈥�...This pictorial Babel questions the articulation between the plurality of languages and alphabets; transforming themselves permanently, as immobile and sometimes as abstract, but still animated by a supernatural magic of the artist鈥檚 gestures and actions proving that creativity never fades. A single piece of data can create thousands of perspectives and can exceed all the borders of the world.鈥�