Date: Thursday 20 February 2025

Hour: 5.00 pm

Place: Art on 56th

Language: English

Duration: 1h00



Registration: (78) 959670 ; visites@agendaculturel.com

The visit is free of charge - Booking is required.

Number of participants is limited.



The visit will be guided by the artist Ghada Jamal.

From Heartland to Homeland consists of three series of paintings created between 2023 and 2024. This body of work takes the viewer on a journey through my heartland, unfolding in three parts: Euphoria, Shared Perspectives, and Restlessness. The city of Beirut, with its beauty and streets that continuously unfold stories and memories thousands of years old, serves as the foundation of this journey. It is a place where the past and present intertwine in an abundance of generous beauty. My vision of Lebanon is that of an elusive homeland, with a passionate appetite for life, despite its pains and restlessness. From Heartland to Homeland shares a consistent foundation.

Color is introduced to the canvas with freedom and fluidity, allowing the emergence of an ambiguous truth. Each series begins with humble origins, and together they invite viewers to pursue beauty, where the process begins, ends, and begins again. The first series ‘Euphoria’ springs from deep, warm colors. These colors embody unabashed spontaneity and joy, reinforcing trust in the movement of our emotions. The boundaries blur as euphoria settles in. The second series ‘Shared Perspectives’ expands on the possibilities of a built environment. It reflects thematic moods inspired by familiar places and culminates in the final series ‘Restlessness’ where both abstract art and the artist are bound by constraints-constraints that must be lived and learned from before they can be left behind.

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