Nada Sehnaoui
Lebanon
the artist calls to remember a past that’s piecemeal and contested, and projects tentative visions of a nonviolent collective future, tending towards a metamodern oscillation between “hope
and melancholy […] unity and plurality, totality and fragmentation.” Concern...
A Beirut-based visual artist whose work, paintings, and installations deal with issues of war, personal memory, public amnesia, the writing of history, and the construction of identity.
Her works not only underscore the imperative of reflecting on the multiple memories of the Lebanese civil war but also on the processes and necessity of national reconciliation. She questions the writing of History and the construction of identity, in the Arab world and beyond, and continuously asks for reflection and rebellion against the status quo.
Artist Statement
the artist calls to remember a past that’s piecemeal and contested, and projects tentative visions of a nonviolent collective future, tending towards a metamodern oscillation between “hope
and melancholy […] unity and plurality, totality and fragmentation.” Concerned with sincerity and affect, Sehnaoui seeks to re-infuse hope and
optimism where irony, cynicism and despair prevailed
