Sara Shamma the steel like astonishment of a face tearing its feminine mask

The young artist Sara Shamma was the star of the Lattakia Biennial where she harvested the first prize of painting. The jury agreed unanimously on granting her the prize in a Competition of works presented by artist from nine Arab countries. Because her work was dazzling and unique.

The absence of free validation in Syrian artistic milieu produced some negative reactions even among those who consider themselves her professor…

Bureaucratic fanaticism and selfishness on the part of some Para-artists who are in decision-making position were behind the negative remarks.

The expansion of the act ivies of private art galleries in the past few years has created Chaos in public taste The marketing power of such galleries and the weakness of specialized foundations have imposed on the public some (stars) who cannot be classified even as standard artists.

Sara was lucky enough to evade such marketing settlements because her Lebanese mother owns a private art gallery where Sara' work is exhibited and prompted.

The large demand on her works has financially protected her from the need to teach or to Join the formal institution.

Her climate is dominated by a crystal polished mysterious world where lines and planes are as sharp as blades. She gathers chips from what she see on television, in movies in advertisement.
Publications… Music-albums covers. Reportages in the trend of the American artist Andy Warhol who painted Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley's dances.

Her forms regain rhythms of movies, exhibit the transformations of a modern Don Juan that fade into the horizon, a reminder of Magritte, Chirico and others.

We also find in her formations nightlife, people who look like pop music fans with their drugged eccentric utopianism that resorts to the horizon away from gravity.

In drawing is essential to describe such world…her talent remind us of the age of Ralphael and the skill of(hyperrealism) group who-like her –surpass the photographed document…she weaves those pictures with higher bred technique and a deep knowledge of classical oil painting, well noted here is how her experience had developed from a cute expressionism to neo-figurative painting, all the time creating psychological relationships in crisis.

Shamma frequently resorted to self portrait presented as a narcissist from the mythical beauty of (thousand and one nights). She often paints her face tearing its feminine mask revealing her longing to freedom from the tyranny and slavery of Adam's sons if ever she crosses from painting her(self) into painting her inner schizophrenic (selves) the painting become a mixture of femininity and masculinity with idealistic appearance ….A model of modern Hermaphrodite.

Sara's imagination tends towards universality that does not exclude memory. Her existentialist statement is related to the suffering of the lonely (I) rather than the (US) committed to the mass ideology.

Her creative flower springs from the general dryness that surrounds her generation, in time of recession, emptiness, and plastic arts inertia; her astonishment opposes commons methods and patterns thus she seems too dynamic for her twenty five years of age.

This young artist make her way through swamps, breaking away from uniform of dress and custom which explains the violent reactions to her new-born light.

Sara Shamma is an explosive phenomenon...

A volcano blowing its lava after long congestion in a deaf valley.