The Hangar Exhibition
This year’s Amman Design Week features local designers who have experimented on the borderline between art and design, with an innovative use of material.
Hiba Shahzada strives to explore the strong affiliation between art and architecture in her projects, driven by a keen pursuit to find new ways of expression in her work, by using different tools, different materials, and different inspirations.
Impression was conceived following an interest in copper as a medium for architectural representation. Wires are woven together to render the depth, light and shade, texture and materials of a three dimensional space. The product is a two dimensional screen that expresses qualities transcending its surface.
Hiba Shahzada is a Jordanian architect and artist. She has worked with Sahel Al Hiyari Architects in Jordan and Atelier Zumthor and Partner in Switzerland.
Mais Al Azab, an architect and designer, is interested in site-specific works. She invests in architectural installations and experimental design works, as an early form of practice.
Al Azab’s exhibited piece, Pygmalion, is a set of two custom-designed easels, arranged as one sculptural entity. The design of the set pays homage to the formal aesthetics of the classical easel.
Pygmalion is an exploration of the balancing act of the easel’s skeletal structure, its tilted planes and their relation to the viewing eye.
As a multi-talented artist based in Amman, Hayan Maani’s work covers a wide array of design directions, from paintings and sculpture to calligraphy and product design.
The medium used in Maani’s work varies widely, using single-colored materials, such as bronze, for creating some of his sculptures, and using bright palettes in his prints.
For Amman Design Week, he is exhibiting a pair of chairs, Love and Peace, designed as an exploration of the intersection between modern Arabic calligraphy and furniture design.