From February 20 to March 22, 3 Games takes over the Nomad Utopia space in Gemmayzeh. The duo White Paper, composed of Carel Marso and Jacques Vartabedian, explores notions of chance, perception and communication through works on paper. The exhibition revisits surrealist techniques to create an interactive and sensory artistic experience.
From February 20 to March 22, Nomad Utopia in Gemmayzeh hosts 3 Games, an exhibition by the duo White Paper, composed of Carel Marso and Jacques Vartabedian. Through a series of monochrome works on paper, the artists explore the interplay of chance, perception and touch, reinventing artistic creation in an interactive and experimental form.
The exhibition is structured around three distinct experiences, each questioning the fragility and humor inherent in human communication. Automatic Drawing imagines interior spaces in constant flux, challenging conventional notions of domesticity. Exquisite Corpse revisits the surrealist parlor game, where each artist adds a contribution without seeing the previous one, allowing chance and unpredictability to take over. Draw On My Back engages touch as a medium: one artist draws on the other’s back, who then attempts to recreate the gesture, replacing visual perception with tactile intuition.
By embracing spontaneous surrealist techniques, White Paper follows in the tradition of experimentation and subversion of artistic norms. The legacy of André Breton and his contemporaries — whose influence spanned multiple periods of social and political upheaval — resonates here through a playful and introspective approach. 3 Games carries this tradition forward, transforming everyday elements into a fragmented universe filled with hallucinatory landscapes and floating figures.
This sensory immersion, balancing abstraction and spontaneity, offers a new perspective on how we interact with the world and each other — an invitation to rediscover the creative process from an entirely fresh angle.
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