Death was and is the biggest mystery of all times. It is one of my greatest fears. With this collection I see death and after life from a new perspective. I come to deal with my fears positively and I let my imagination drift me to shores I never reached before.

Perhaps death is a new beginning. Maybe if I dig deep in my thoughts, I would understand what nations are trying to prove. Possibilities are my paintings confronting the spirit and the living worlds.

“This collection is pure imaginative and fantasy not aimed to underestimate or deny any religious or scientific opinion.” 

“I am a Foreigner” is a series of paintings and video performances that express my journey from Lebanon to Germany. They depict my feelings between attachment and detachment. It also portrays my disoriented emotions that sway my existence between my homeland and my new life here in Leipzig.

It is tough to “be” in a setting where I am also dissimilar. With every painting or performance, I root myself in this new soil. I want to continue here what I was before.

“I am a Foreigner” is the extensions and the delays; it is the shouts and the whispers. It is what was and what will be.

I trust my way, step by step. My faith grounds me and my hope lifts me high.

“I am a Foreigner” is a series of paintings and video performances that express my journey from Lebanon to Germany. They depict my feelings between attachment and detachment. It also portrays my disoriented emotions that sway my existence between my homeland and my new life here in Leipzig.

It is tough to “be” in a setting where I am also dissimilar. With every painting or performance I root myself in this new soil. I want to continue here what I was before.

“I am a Foreigner” is the extensions and the delays; it is the shouts and the whispers. It is what was and what will be.

I trust my way, step by step. My faith grounds me and my hope lifts me high.

I am walking...

New forms of collectivity began to emerge as I glided through a world of dimmed colors and swaying blurry figures. each figure is a story and each gathering a statement written by multiple bodies, forming and reforming themselves singularly and in groups. i did not see any faces but i absorbed the gestures and signals that each one emitted. these collective movements and individuals expressions became the basis of my work.

The concept of these works mirrors the mixed feelings that Lebanese people have towards their recent state. It is a war between extremes. In this exhibition I showcases these extremes leaving you to figure out your own middle state and draw your own red line, and it does not have to be red!