Mix & Match brings together a group of artists whose practices span painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, and text-based work, assembling a deliberately layered exhibition that treats the gallery as a site of visual collage. Rather than presenting discrete bodies of work in isolation, the exhibition operates through proximity, overlap, and contrast, allowing meaning to emerge through adjacency. Watercolour, manipulated photography, sculptural forms, and graphic interventions coexist, producing a shifting field of colour, texture, and rhythm.
The exhibition is structured through a curatorial logic of pairing and counterpoint. Zena Assi’s surreal still lives, marked by quiet tension and symbolic ambiguity, sit alongside Franck Christen’s chromatic flora, where colour and form oscillate between abstraction and recognisable growth. Jad El Khoury’s loose, diaristic doodles bleed into Yolande Labaki’s patterned compositions, creating a dialogue between spontaneity and repetition. These encounters encourage viewers to move laterally through the space, reading the works in relation rather than as singular statements.
Elsewhere, the exhibition introduces sharper tonal shifts. Ahmad Manawishi’s expressionist works bring socio-political concerns into the frame, grounding the exhibition’s visual play in lived realities. This is echoed, though approached differently, in the photographic practice of Les Indisciplinés, whose documentation of Beirut’s underground scenes offers a raw, observational counterweight to the more stylised works around it. These contributions introduce friction into the exhibition’s flow, complicating its lighter registers.
Humour and language surface through David Kramer’s text-based works, which punctuate the space with wit and commentary. These are placed in conversation with the sculptural works of Nevine Bouez and Maïa Tabet, whose playful forms extend the exhibition’s interest in tactility and gesture.
Together, Mix & Match resists a single narrative or hierarchy. Instead, it functions as a living composition, where diverse artistic voices intersect, overlap, and diverge, inviting viewers to navigate the exhibition through mood, intuition, and associative thinking rather than fixed interpretation.
Location: Galerie Tanit, Beirut.
Date: 18 December 2025 until 22 January 2026