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.<\/p>\n
She is presenting her project La Dentelli\u00e8re Desk Chair XVI\u00e8me Trilogy involving Vermeer\u2019s 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 Sc\u00e8nes de Vie (1999), The Chattering Court (2003), and Scan Life (2004).
La Dentelli\u00e8re Desk Chair XVI\u00e8me Trilogy describes her long personal story with painting in parallel with the destruction of a sky.<\/p>\n
La Dentelli\u00e8re Desk Chair XVI\u00e8me Trilogy is composed of OBL and his Court (part I), L\u2019Ouverture des Ombres (part II), on display in Beirut Exhibition Center, until July the 24th and Sky Under Surveillance (part III).<\/p>\n
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 Mus\u00e9e 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).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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