Maria Kassab, from the series "Keep Your Photographs Close" 2022-2023 (In progress)

Maria Kassab, from the series "Letters From Home" 2020.

Maria Kassab, from the series "Of Places & Cannons" 2018.

Maria Kassab, from the series "Nocturne" 2014.

Name
Maria Kassab
  • Artist
    • Biography
    Her work focuses on the political and cultural climate in Lebanon and the MENA region using photography, image manipulation, and video work, and painting as her main mediums. Her artworks are published in international art magazines. She is currently in the process of researching different visual languages while exploring new cultural and social territories. She experiments with image manipulation and photography to create narratives as forms of resistance to the current cultural, social, and political situation in Lebanon and the region in general. Her work focuses on trauma, memory, and displacement, conveying her irreconcilable relationship with home (Lebanon). Her deconstructive identity involves the decontextualization of subjects and objects from their natural habitat. She states that her work is a resistance to the political and cultural dilemma we live in, narrating the physical and mental transformations within fictitious spaces. Her constructive and deconstructive images navigate between absence and presence while recollecting a timeline of violent events from her hometown Beirut.
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    Artist Statement
    Her work focuses on the political and cultural climate in Lebanon and the MENA region using photography, image manipulation, and video work, and painting as her main mediums. Her artworks are published in international art magazines. She is currently in the process of researching different visual languages while exploring new cultural and social territories. She experiments with image manipulation and photography to create narratives as forms of resistance to the current cultural, social, and political situation in Lebanon and the region in general. Her work focuses on trauma, memory, and displacement, conveying her irreconcilable relationship with home (Lebanon). Her deconstructive identity involves the decontextualization of subjects and objects from their natural habitat. She states that her work is a resistance to the political and cultural dilemma we live in, narrating the physical and mental transformations within fictitious spaces. Her constructive and deconstructive images navigate between absence and presence while recollecting a timeline of violent events from her hometown Beirut.
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