Chafa Ghaddar: Beneath Latent Skies

Working across multiple media, Chafa Ghaddar casts a contemporary gaze towards the historic fresco mural painting technique. The exploration and excavation of new potentials in materiality and process are central to her practice. Ghaddar makes palpable the tension between durability and impermanence and unpacks a non-linear journey that departs from fresco painting’s classical associations and arrives in the present.

This new body of work, Beneath Latent Skies, will see Ghaddar tackle the notion of the body as a landscape and host of multiple agendas – a site of eroticism, violence, movement, temporality, love, despair and repair. Together these pieces summon a tension between spaces – flesh, land and sky.