A Dima Hajjar Project Sky Under Surveillance
Dima Hajjar is a Lebanese visual artist, born in Beirut, 1968.
In her research, she tackles subjects related to her own background, exploring social and identity issues. She uses objects of public and personal life. Decontextualized, they build their new meanings with their mere confrontation in her work. Questioning the background issue has led her to diversify her media.
She is presenting her project La Dentellière Desk Chair XVIème Trilogy involving Vermeer’s Lacemaker, which she sets in a context of war, conflict, then reconstruction, all the while attempting to knit the fragments of her identity. Her previous works include Scènes de Vie (1999), The Chattering Court (2003), and Scan Life (2004).
La Dentellière Desk Chair XVIème Trilogy describes her long personal story with painting in parallel with the destruction of a sky.
La Dentellière Desk Chair XVIème Trilogy is composed of OBL and his Court (part I), L’Ouverture des Ombres (part II), on display in Beirut Exhibition Center, until July the 24th and Sky Under Surveillance (part III).
Hajjar has been the recipient of many awards, including prizes from the International Millennium Painting Competition (London, Stockholm, New York, 2000), the Jeux de la Francophonie (Ottawa, Canada, 2001), and the Musée Nicolas Sursock (Beirut, 2003). She has had two solo exhibitions in Beirut, and participated in several group shows in France, Canada, Cameroon, Egypt, Algeria, and London. She has recently shown her work in Berlin at the Berliner Liste for Contemporary Art and Photography (2010).
