AYLA HIBRI

The chain: Toys, Metal Welders, Dreamers

Athens Design Forum presents Lebanese artist Ayla Hibri’s chain of thematic photographic essays—Toys, Metal Welders, and Dreamers. In their three-fold partition, the essays relay the transgression of matter into the praxis of authorship. Across the territories of  Jordan, Eritrea, and beyond, Hibri navigates the thresholds between the particular and the universal, always attentive to laws of patterns and the acts of once undefined rituals.  

FRANCISCO CANTON, Offset

Athens Design Forum presents Argentinian photographer and director Francisco Canton’s series, Offset, a penetrative entry into the forensic rhythm between frames. "The choreography of these images arises from a limit I impose on myself," Canton notes, "using timing and sequence to create a rhythm and sense of continuity in the work." Repetition reveals rupture and familiarity becomes estrangement, evolving forward in the innocuous presence of a metronome.