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Bettina Khoury Badr

BETTINA KHOURY BADR

Sky Diary Galerie Tanit 29 August–3 December 2024 Beyrouth
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Bettina Badr retains moments of everyday life, as if in a diary, inscribing the changing moods of landscapes on small-scale papers using water-based mediums. She transposes these diary entries into large compositions, creating visions in organic and geometric shapes. The circles and squares, she persistently uses, echo the ancient symbols of the spherical heavens and the solidity and materiality of earth. These complex abstractions transform the landscapes into subtle interplays of colours and forms.

Set in relation to one another, the landscapes begin to frame each other, making each piece interact with the next as, simultaneously content, frame, and outside world, in an open-ended permutation. The landscapes become constellations inviting viewers to explore an infinite vision of our world that transcends confined perceptions.“Observe day and night simultaneously,” “reverse ground and sky,” “look at earth from the moon” urges the artist, making each work an open frame through which reality is re-invented.

Text by Zena Meskaoui. Courtesy Galerie Tanit, Beyrouth/Munich.

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Born in Beirut in 1971, Bettina Khoury Badr’s work confronts the abstract with the representational, the gestural with the still. Her work draws inspiration from Lebanon, her place of birth, and the events that are part of the recent shattered past. She delves into memory and depicts fragments of reality.

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Beirut East Village Building - Ground Floor, Armenia Street, Mar Mikhael
Galerie Tanit contemporary art gallery in Beyrouth Beirut Lebanon
Galerie Tanit
East Village Building - Ground Floor, Armenia Street, Mar Mikhael, Beirut, Lebanon
+961 156 2812
http://www.galerietanit.com

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Mon - Fri, 11am - 7pm
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