Photo by Julie Aractingi
Artist statement :
Gabrielle Bejani is a French and Lebanese artist currently living in London.
As an Arab feminist woman groping for her path, Gabrielle Bejani transcribes her ever-ending experience of self-actualisation into her art practice. Her artworks are an investigation into the numerous anguish that the world bequests us. She very consciously chose to look at these challenges with unwavering softness.
Through a soft colour palette and the weightlessness of her artworks, she evokes traditional feminine characteristics such as fragility and empathy. She aims to celebrate these belittled values and uncover their powerful linkage with dignity. Gabrielle believes there is pride to be found in vulnerability, even though it's conventionally associated with weakness; she thinks there is powerful grace in being honest with one own wonky truth.
She addresses her artworks to her comrades, to all the people who have been pushed to drape themselves in vanquishing glares. She wants to tell them, You are worthy of love.
Additionally, Gabrielle is fascinated by the opaque nature of the self. The "me" seems so evidently accessible yet is full of mirages. She feels that as soon as one tries to figure oneself out, the stories that maintain one's sense of self suddenly become wonky and blurred.
To capture her impression of that obscure layered inner world, Gabrielle Bejani makes collages where she experiments with Transparent and see through materials. These materials allow her to play with the possibilities of concealing, veiling, and revealing. The effects communicate ideas, such as secrecy, shame, and/or simultaneousness, but also convey the sentiment of a hunch, a vague feeling which seems clear yet remain partially hidden. Like a word condemn to remain at the tip of the tongue.
About
Born in 1995 in Paris, France
contact : Gabrielle.bejani@gmail.com
Education:
2021 - 2023 MFA Slade school of Fine Art
2015 - 2018 BA in Fine art and history of art at Goldsmiths University of London
Exhibition History:
Painting (at the moment) 2024 - 0207 gallery - London
Brockley Boogie Woogie 2024 - Royal Georges Pub - London
Drawing open 2024 — no format Gallery — London
A Reach 2023 — The London Art Board — London
Slade degree show 2023 — Slade School of Fine Art — London
FEMME 2023 — Ladies drawing club — online show
Eviction Notice 2023 —Pocket trap contemporary — London
Paroxysm 2023 — Westbeth Gallery — New York
Slide a glance 2023 — ASC gallery — London
Slade interim show 2022 — Slade school of fine art — London
L’art au gallo 2021 — Atelier le gallo — Paris
2021 - Culture is the vulture that stole my ice cream — private flat — Paris
2021 — I want your drawings! 3 of obsessions — Gallery nueva — Madrid
2021 — A studio, Somewhere, Half a Century Away — Ladies Drawing Clüb — online exhibition
2020 — Life on Venus I: The Landscape — The tube Hackney — London
2020 - pervland — Barck Floop independent art space — warsaw
2019 - Rencontre contemporaine en Sud Luxembourg — galerie du cheval blanc — Arlon
2019 - Erotica — Blank Space Oslo — Oslo
2019 - Tetrahedron — Art hub studios — London
2018 - woolwich contemporary print fair — London
2018 - BA degree show goldsmiths university — London