L' ART BLESSÉ

Born in 1960, Katya A.Traboulsi is a Beirut based multimedia artist whose practice is characterizedby the emotional intensity with which she confronts the effects of the Lebanese civil war. Both her painting and sculptural works are characterized by her bolduse of color, which disrupts the viewer’s expectations of the dark subjectmatter they are confronted with. Her solo exhibition Perpetual Identities (2018) held at the Saleh Barakat Gallery saw presented 46 hand-crafted replicas of Lebanese war bomb shells adorned with colorful patterns, beads and sculpted forms, thus transforming these destructive military objects intobeautiful, ornate vessels.

In 2013, Traboulsi published Generation War, a body of work that traces thestory of

photojournalists who witnessed the civil war during the 80s – an homage to their efforts

and a political project that seeks to record thecountry’s complex histories. Traboulsi

lived and worked in Dubai from 1989 till 2016 before returning to her native Beirut. Her

work has been exhibited internationally since 1986 in Paris, London, Dubai, Kuwait, North America, the Algerian museum of Modern Art and the International Armory Show in NYC, Venice, Washington MEI and UN in New York in December 2019.