When preparations turn into an optical art

The Lebanese plastic artist, Mona, explores the mysterious “Paridolia” phenomenon, which is known as our vision of familiar forms in irrational elements of daily life, such as clouds, walls and a cup of coffee. The new exhibition of the same name is currently being held in the “Mishint Art” Gallery in the “Mar Makhael” area in Beirut.

The exhibition includes a collection of acrylic paintings and statues carried out with “packed paper” technology, creating an unconventional visual experience of the viewer. Mona’s works combine contradictions such as shadow and light, dream and nightmare, masculinity and femininity, and reflects the modern human struggle with himself and his surroundings.

The addresses of paintings such as the “comfort zone”, “Connege”, and “Self -Love” carry references to psychological, social and political moments, while works such as “dancer” and “the child within us” shed light on the tension between the appearance and the essence of the human soul.