Shafic Abboud spent a lifetime embracing duality. Between his Lebanese and French identity, the figurative and the abstract, intellectualism and hedonism, he built a visual language vast enough to hold the contradictions that shaped him.
When Salmah Almansoori moved from Ghayathi to Abu Dhabi in 2019, the three-hour road between the two cities drew her attention to something strange. Each weekly return made her hometown look slightly less familiar…
Hady Boraey met the world first through drawing. Words came later. He was three when he began making images in a house in the Egyptian Delta, with the Nile nearby and the quiet rhythm of fields, animals, and farmers around him.
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.