Karim Zeriahen is a name to reminisce on
this spring in the artistic sphere as he has just launched his first solo
spring exhibition ‘It’s Taken Me All of
My Life to Find You’ at the Lazarides Rathbone.
His multimedia exhibition challenges his
audience’s perspective of individual identity in both poetic and ironic ways. What Karim’s exhibition does in a refreshingly diverse way, is that he strays away from the precincts of film to which he previously
focused his methods on and instead, as a progressive move, has used shapes,
lines and light to present movement and emotion in a bid to reveal the creative
energy inside.
This impulse was the focused element of
his works as Zeriahen abides to the indication that creative energy is in fact
heavily rejected by the commercialism of the art world in favour for idolatory
worship of branded individuals.
At first impression, in the gallery’s
entrance, we were presented with portraits of different women of significance.
Zeriahen has selected his muses based on his admiration for them both
professionally and personally. La Contessa Cristiana Brandolini d'Adda,
Julia Peyton Jones, Cecilia Bengolea, Victoire de Pourtales,
Marie Donnelly were chosen to showcase their inner strength and
originality and so provided the central theme of Zeriahen’s exhibition.
Further presented in the second room
of the gallery was a collection of abstract neon elements which bore similarity
to the pencilling of Cy Twombly.
In
a bid to confront the audience, the name entitled to this section ‘The
Writing’s On The Wall’ challenged the expectations one had when entering the
room as we attempted to critically question and analyse exactly what was behind
the message.
Interestingly, the emphasis on the ‘Give
Me Light’ feature was the show stopper as an entire room was dedicated to a
constructed confession box holding original footage of Kate Moss. Alongside the
footage was a hauntingly eclectic classical score commissioned by Henry Bennett.
The purpose of this installation was indeed to a remark on ‘ idolatry, the replacement of religions by
the cult of celebrities and the loss of meaning and a persistent obsession
of the individual’.
Zeriahen’s exhibition runs until 10th
May at the Lazarides Rathbone Gallery so do visit it for an insight into this
artistic masterpiece.
Exhibition
dates: 11th April – 10th May, 2014
Lazarides
Rathbone, 11 Rathbone Place, W1T 1HR
+ 44
(0) 207 636 5443
Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 7pm, admission
free
www.lazinc.com
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