Born 1972, Beirut, Lebanon.
As with any artist, my work is partially a self –portrait and since my balance lies in the two extremes, so does my work.
My work finds its origin in intense subject matter, in the use or misuse of the body, in the human figure. Being specially influenced by conceptual art, my motivation comes from tragedies, social and cultural issues and real life events; I reflect on them and react to them. “That’s what artists do: they deal with their vulnerabilities…” (Richard Serra).
The translation of those reflections remains at a processing stage: if the audience can capture the spirit of what I am trying to communicate in these stages, the finishing stage becomes irrelevant. I prefer my work to remain raw and by extension real, verses to being “bien poli” which has a double meaning in French “polite” and “polished”. Process will also create intellectual involvement from the audience with the figures present in the work.
And if, somehow along the way, I succeed in providing the public with an experience enabling them ”… to deal with their internal relationships, both physical and psychological…”in other words, an experience that brings them back to themselves, making them discover existing but “unused” emotions, then great!
Nathalie Labaki
read more...Born 1972, Beirut, Lebanon.
As with any artist, my work is partially a self –portrait and since my balance lies in the two extremes, so does my work.
My work finds its origin in intense subject matter, in the use or misuse of the body, in the human figure. Being specially influenced by conceptual art, my motivation comes from tragedies, social and cultural issues and real life events; I reflect on them and react to them. “That’s what artists do: they deal with their vulnerabilities…” (Richard Serra).
The translation of those reflections remains at a processing stage: if the audience can capture the spirit of what I am trying to communicate in these stages, the finishing stage becomes irrelevant. I prefer my work to remain raw and by extension real, verses to being “bien poli” which has a double meaning in French “polite” and “polished”. Process will also create intellectual involvement from the audience with the figures present in the work.
And if, somehow along the way, I succeed in providing the public with an experience enabling them ”… to deal with their internal relationships, both physical and psychological…”in other words, an experience that brings them back to themselves, making them discover existing but “unused” emotions, then great!
Nathalie Labaki
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2010
Surface Libre gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
Art Lounge, Beirut, Lebanon
2009 The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut, Lebanon
2008
Gibran Khalil Gibran Museum, Lebanon
2007
French Embassy, Riyadh, KSA
Assafeer Art Competition 2, Riyadh, KSA
2006
International Festival Expo Art Montreal, Montreal, Canada
The Arab Cultural Club for Creative Artists 4, Beirut2006 Espace, Beirut, Lebanon
LAAPS (Lebanese Art Association for Painters and Sculptors ), Beirut, Lebanon
Noah's Ark Art Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
2005
BIEL, ARTSUD, Beirut, Lebanon
Surface Libra Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
Chahine Art Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
Daniel Besseiche art gallery, Paris, France
2004
Art Lounge, Beirut, Lebanon
Paul Guiragossian Museum, Beirut, Lebanon
BIEL, EMMAGOSS Art Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
Fine Arts Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA), Paris, France, 2005.
BA Interior Design Lebanese American University (LAU), Lebanon, 1996.