Mais al Azab

Pygmalion easels are a pair of delicately sculpted easels in classical beech-wood material. Named after the legendary sculptor who fell in love with a statue of his own creation, the designed pair reads as a continuous form and emerges as one geometrical unity at certain viewing moments. The design statement in itself is an exploration of the balancing act of the easel’s skeletal structure, its tilted planes and their relation to the viewing eye. It’s two-sided layout induces a spatial experience that invites the viewer to move around it; bringing what’s regarded as a backdrop of the artwork to the forefront, as a celebrated artwork in its own right. Each one of the two easels holds an engraved signature that commemorate their design as a pair.
Pygmalion easels were conceived initially to display art inscriptions created out of extracts from the Pygmalion’s Arabic rendition. The easels were featured as part of Laylak contemporary Art House exhibition in 2017 and displayed earlier in the Hanger Exhibition curated by Sahel al Hiyari in 2016 as part of the inaugural Amman Design Week held under the support of her majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah.