George and Dragon’s White Cubicle Toilet Gallery is pleased to invite you to an exhibition by Husam el Odeh 
 
Monday the 11th of February 2008 from 8pm – 12am 

German born Husam El Odeh studied fine art at the renowned Hochschule der Kuenste in Berlin and worked successfully as an artist in Berlin until he relocated to London in 1999. There he exchanged the canvas for the body and started to make jewellery. Husam first show was in February 2005 during London Fashion Week, under the blanket of Fashion East, he then graduated from Middlesex University in Summer 2005. 

Since then Husam has worked with designer Marios Schwab on various projects, and has collaborated with designers Ann Sofie Back, Mihara Yasuhiros and designed a range of jewellery for Siv Stoldal. Husam’s works has been included in Italian Vogue, Pelle Vogue, ID, Purple, Dazed and Confused, Another Magazine, Another Man, Ten Magazine, Numero and Elle. His jewelry and accessories are available to purchase at Colette (Paris), B store, Kabiri, Palette (London), Side by Side and Factory (Tokyo). Husam’s work balances tactile and visual qualities confusig expectations. The combination of opposites and the immediacy of the body become an integral part of his work. 

Recently Husam has started to draw again this being his first exhibition in London. 

’When I draw people I always see it as a very tender and sensitive interaction. The lines of the male body are harder and more pronounced, there is a tension that arises in this contradiction of hard and tender. I find it interesting to draw males in a way that contradicts the preconceptions of masculinity without making them effeminate’ 

‘I always see drawing someone as a very subtle and intimate interaction. it is like tracing a moment and a situation. An attempt to hold onto something, a shadow of a temporary reality and viewpoint. I have collected various traces of the situation, the interaction and the person in which i made this installation. The shorts, socks and necklace were worn by Simon the evening I made the drawings in my studio. I have shaved his hair off the following day and worked it into the wallpaint. The writing is a mix of my thoughts and bits of our conversation as I was working. Finally I found I should for honesty include some of the scrap drawings and scribbles i made alongside. I liked the idea of creating the visual out of writing as it is in the end a maybe more poetic version of a toilet graffiti.’ 

http://www.husamelodeh.com