CREATION STRIPPED TO ITS RAW ESSENCE

We are artists who refuse the hierarchy of the art market. We step into the unknown, strip creation to its raw essence, and lay it bare before everyone; the public, the collector, the poet, the curious, the curator, and the enemy alike. For 21 days, we paint live, expose our quirks, embrace failure, and dismantle the distance between process and encounter.

The rules are simple, and radical: every work of the same size carries the same price, and all proceeds are shared equally. No inflated value, no career stage advantage; established and emerging artists stand side by side. What began with three artists expanded to ten, circulating over a thousand works on paper, and opening access to people from all walks of life.

We are not a gallery. We collaborate with galleries. We are a system that redistributes, destabilizes, and redefines how art can circulate. The public embraces it. The establishment fears it.

Five productions since 2019:

SON OF Father and Son, Music and Painting in Lynn Modallal Gallery Jul 2024 - Beirut

[The public, Amer Chamaa, Fadi Elchamaa, Semaan Khawam, Jakub Szczesny]

TABA3OD (distancing) Two artists sticking together in the time of Covid distancing Jul 2020 - Beirut

[Artists: Fadi Elchamaa, Semaan Khawam - Videographer: Lea Skayem - Music Production Amer Chamaa - Curators Lynn Modallal, Zalfa Halabi]

MAMNOU3 ELTAHZIB (no politeness) Ten artists painting in one rented space Feb 2020 - Beirut

[Artists: Petram Chalach, Louma Rabah, Aya Kazoun, Semaan Khawam, Shawki Youssef, Ghylan Safadi, Mansour elHabr, Anny Kurkdjian, Fadi Elchamaa - Curators: Lynn Modallal, Zalfa Halabi]

RAW Three artists painting in KAF Gallery June 2019 - Beirut

[Sara Chaar, Fadi Elchamaa, Semaan Khawam] 

SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY Three artists painting in KAF Gallery April 2019 - Beirut

[Fadi Elchamaa, Semaan Khawam, Ghylan Safadi]

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