“4me4you” visits Lazarides Gallery showcasing Karim Zeriahen: “It’s Taken Me All of My Life to Find You”

 

Lazarides Gallery.>>” It's Taken Me All of My Life to Find You” breaks free from the confines of film, to which Zeriahen previously limited his artistic output. Instead the works in his debut exhibition utilise light, lines and shapes to show movement and emotion in a quest to uncover the creative impetus inside, a force the artist sees quashed by the commercial art world in an exchange for an admiration of the idolatry of branded individuals.

 

Portraits of five women side by side of different ages, backgrounds and origins displaying strength, originality and freedom. These muses - La Contessa Cristiana Brandolini d'Adda, Julia Peyton Jones, Cecilia Bengolea, Victoire de Pourtales, Marie Donnelly - are selected upon the artist's admiration for their lifetime achievement, both personally and professionally. Inspired by their individuality, Zeriahen highlights the leader inherent in each and everyone one of his viewers.