Spectral Arrangement: Hammzat Tahabsim

Make Room is proud to present Spectral Arrangement, a new collection of paintings and drawings by Hammzat Tahabsim that calls on the powerful force of the unknown. They are the realization of ruptured narratives, woven from the torn threads of our larger societal tapestry and Hammzat Tahabsim’s own story. These are not depictions of events, but rather speculations of a temporal, psychological and spiritual world that is separate from our own. This place is not a fiction; These figures exist in a limbo between reality and fabrication. Not of our world, faintly familiar, remaining unrecognizable.

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About Artist

Hammzat Tahabsim (b. 1997, Amman, Jordan) approaches painting as a site of metaphysical breach—where systemic structures and spiritual logic collide, collapse, and reconfigure.

Working across painting and drawing, his textile surfaces operate less as containers of image than as permeable thresholds: haunted, wounded, and devotional. Figures in his work emerge as spectral anatomies or recede into architectural veils, suspended in conditions of doubt, exile, and ecstatic fragmentation. Color functions as substance rather than symbol—bruising, staining, or sedimenting across the weave—while drawing acts as a form of excavation, tracing ruptured lineages, cultural fault lines and psychic architectures. Rather than aiming for resolution, Tahabsim’s practice probes conditions of instability, insisting on the material complexity of memory, belief, and form as they shift, erode, and persist.