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Hiba Kalache

Hiba Kalache is a Lebanese artist whose practice encompasses installation, drawing, painting and sculpture. She takes from her daily life her materials (food, glass, wire…), her process, her inspiration. Kalache questions the separation between private and public spheres, particularly what she calls “the banality of daily rituals”, as well as the definition of “home” and social belonging.

She has recently been interested in the relationship between texts and images. Produced in a period of prolonged socio-historical and existential crisis, this artwork is in tune with its time: it exposes our ambivalent desires towards the current reality, which is both fantasy and living nightmare. The gesture is fragile, intimate and intuitive, the work luminous and full of rage.

In Kalache’s work, desire is represented by partial erotic patterns (belly, breast, phallus, toe, thigh, anus, and eye) that the viewer sees or does not see, depending on his disposition of mind. Oscillating between automatism and intention, her brushstrokes evoke rays of sun or spots of excrement. What was briefly beautiful now appears distorted.

Biographie

Hiba Kalache est une artiste libanaise née en 1972. Elle vit et travaille à Beyrouth.

FORMATION

  • 2005 / MFA, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
  • 1992 / DEP, Metal Arts School of Montreal, Montreal, Canada.
  • 1992 / CGA, Canadian Gemmological Association, Toronto, Canada.

EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES – SELECTION

  • 2018 / Lemonade Everything Was So Infinite, Saleh Barakat Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
  • 2012 / Alternate Worlds, The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut, Lebanon
  • 2012 / Under a Beautiful Sky, FFA Private Bank, with The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, in collaboration with Nada Boulos El Assaad, Beirut, Lebanon

EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES – SELECTION

  • 2018 / the horror, the horror, the horror, Harald Szeemann and the Archive, Beirut, Lebanon
  • 2017 / Beirut Art Fair, Beirut, Lebanon
  • 2015 / HeartLand, Beirut Exhibition Center, with Joanna Chevalier and Nadine Saddi Zaccour, Beirut, Lebanon
  • 2014 / Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
  • 2013 / Journeys Through our Heritage, in collaboration with Janine Maamari and Marie Tomb, Beirut Exhibit Center, Beirut, Lebanon
  • 2013 / Art Dubai 2013, with The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Dubai, UAE
  • 2013 / Drawing Now Paris 2013, with The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Paris, France
  • 2012 / Watercolor Biennial 2012, Alfredo Guati Rojo National Watercolor Museum, Mexico
  • 2012 / Seeing is Believing, Standard Chartered Auction, Dubai, UAE
  • 2012 / Art Gwangju 2012, with The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Gwangju, South Korea
  • 2012 / Art is the Answer!, curated by Diane Hennebert, Villa Empain, The Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
  • 2012 / Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
  • 2011 / Rebirth, Beirut Exhibition Center, curated by Janine Maamari in cooperation with Daniele Giraudy, Beirut, Lebanon
  • 2011 / In the Trenches, The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut, Lebanon
  • 2010 / Slick Art Fair Paris, with The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Paris, France
  • 2010 / Bastakiya Art Fair, with The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Dubai, UAE
  • 2010 / Counting Thoughts, curated by Mayssa Fattouh, The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut, Lebanon
  • 2010 / Soft Sculpture, or The Ordinary Interpreted, The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut, Lebanon
  • 2008 / Urban Jealousy, curated by Serhat Koksal and Amirali Ghasemi, Tehran Roaming International Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey; Berlin, Germany; and Belgrade, Serbia
  • 2007 / Minor Encounters, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
  • 2006 / Some of These Things are Beautiful, site specific installation of the Arc Collective, Oakland, CA
  • 2005 / Sweet and Spicy, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
  • 2005 / Graduate Open Studios, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
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