“My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die”.( Bob Marley)
Bio:
I was born in Helsinki Finland. I lived there 7 years with my mother and elder sister. I started my education in the school of the embassy of France.
I moved afterwards to France, to a small village called Biot in the south of France. I attended “l’ile verte” school in Biot . I lived there for 2 years from 7 to 9. Then my mother decided to come back to her home country Lebanon where I have been living for 9 years now. I changed schools twice. I was first in “Notre Dame de Nazareth” and did my last three years in “College Louise Wegmann” where I still am today. Next year, I hope to move to Paris to continue an education of cinematography which with art is one of my main interests.
Statement:
When I am asked when I first started painting, I don’t know what to answer. I have been painting or drawing for such a long time that I can’t even remember. My mother always told me that I used to draw on news papers all the kinds of colors. That, I suppose was my “beginning”. I used to be very interested in doing caricatures of teachers and family. But at the age of 12, I picked up a brush, and since then never put it down.
I cannot start describing what art means to me but since I have to resume it, let me start by saying that art is what makes me who I am. Ever since I was a little girl I have been exposed to it and explored it from all points of view. Without it, I wouldn’t even recognize myself. In my opinion, art by itself does not have a real existence. There are only artists. Therefore, it is the artists that give life to art. And when artists get together, art comes alive in the most beautiful ways. In other words, it is never as alive as when it is experienced by a group of artists.
Therefore, the will I have to express myself and share the joy of painting is what I love the most. The will have to show who I really am to whom ever is interested made me want to participate in “shou tabkha ya marra” exhibition.
I have lived most of my life in Beirut. It is a great city. It thought me art in a special way.
My paintings soon to be exhibited in “Shou tabkha ya marra” are a reflection of what I feel towards it and what I see in our generation of woman in this society.
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