Saloua Raouda Choucair did not enter modernism quietly. In 1951, while studying in Paris, she wrote back.
In Nadia Ayari’s paintings, a flower does not appear because the world is gentle enough to let it bloom. It appears because the world…
Some artists paint the human figure as a subject. Multidisciplinary Syrian artist Abd Kasha paints it as evidence.
Mohamed Ibrahim once told Art Basel that “you don’t stop seeing when you close your eyes”. For the Emirati artist, the space between the…
Baya Mahieddine’s journey has unfolded with a problem the art world still has not solved. Where, exactly, does one place her?
Stéphanie Saadé’s work begins beneath the obvious. In her musings on minutiae, objects and fragments seem trivial until they aren’t.
Ahmed Morsi has spent a lifetime painting a place he cannot locate. And that is both by choice and by design.
Some artists inherit their medium. Mona Saudi chose hers with defiance. Born in Amman in 1945, she grew up in a traditional Jordanian household, her ambitions constrained by conservatism, rather carved in stone.
Before Chafa Ghaddar paints on surfaces, she listens to what they remember, what they conceal, and what they choose to let go of.
Across four decades, Juliana Seraphim built a visual universe where women, nature, and the ethereal flowed into one another with intuitive ease.