Pascal Hachem

Pascal Hachem is an artist and product designer represented by Selma Feriani Gallery and Federica Schiavo Gallery. He won several awards including the Boghossian prize in Brussels, Nadour Collection in Germany, and Kamel Lazaar foundation in Switzerland. He lectured at Art Basel Talks in Switzerland, at the City Gallery Wellington in New Zealand and at the Mosaic Rooms London. Hachem conceives each work as a discrete experience, through processes that employ the visual. Working through performative acts, interventions into urban spaces or by creating sculptural installations in gallery settings. Hachem sets up compelling situations which ask or even demand that the viewer pause and concentrate, take the time to think and work out visual conundrums. 

I thought the 487cm makes a difference.

These words that I am placing on this wall don’t necessarily inhabit (or fit) nor justify the intervention. This intervention is what it is. Somehow placing the text on this wall is a way to admit the existence of this wall.

We give order to space and it is time where a place negotiates its own existence. The dead tree leaves that each one can see while standing in what used to be an inside facing out, now are free to give a visit to this space. 

The passers-by might find a way to appropriate the echo in an invisible way.

The space’s echo is in its void. The one entity will be transformed into different forms, in a way freeing the void from its proper dimension.

In the same manner, listing all these ideas behind this transformation of the space in relation to my life in Beirut looked so real and obvious that I rather spend time cleaning this window from dust.

Cleaning the window for the coming days is a way to understand the wall and its silent - whiteness - position; which is hiding visibly behind a fragile reality.

Justifying is looking for meanings, being logical or not; which I thought might be not relevant here and today. 

A wall is a wall,

The window serves its purpose when it opens a dialogue.

The void however is the only place that I wish to keep on measuring endlessly.

I thought the 487cm makes a difference.