Arwa Seifeddine

Arwa Seifeddine is an artist-painter and a member of the Lebanese Artists Association for Painting and Sculpture. Her work features in many private collections, and is displayed in the permanent public collection of Sursock Museum.

Arwa Seifeddine

Artist – painter

Since Arwa Seifeddine earned her diploma in Interior Architecture with High Distinction from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD); Paris, France in 1982.

Adjunct faculty at the Lebanese American University, she joined LAU (formerly BUC) in 1984 teaching interior design, color theory and foundation courses.

In general, her personal artwork (Painting) incorporates spiritual and architectural elements. It seeks moments from within, focusing on the ambiguity lying between the interior and the exterior in abstract architectural spaces.

The hidden dimension in “Space” remains the main search in her art.

First of all, Her first solo exhibition was held at the UNESCO Palace in Paris (France) in 1988, followed by two other solo shows in 1996 and 2012 at Agial Art Gallery Beirut, Lebanon.

Arwa participated in many collective exhibits in Lebanon and overseas.

Arwa Seifeddine

Moreover, Arwa Seifeddine graduated with High Distinction from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) from Paris, France. She is an interior architect, artist-painter and adjunct faculty at the Lebanese American University.

Arwa Seifeddine joined LAU (formerly BUC) in 1984 teaching interior design, color theory and foundation courses. Her personal artwork (painting) incorporates spiritual and architectural elements.

Thus, It seeks moments from within, focusing on the ambiguity lying between the interior and the exterior in abstract architectural spaces. The hidden dimension in “Space” remains the main search in her art. Her first solo exhibition was held at the UNESCO Palace in Paris in 1988, followed by two other solo shows in 1996 and 2012 at Agial Art Gallery Beirut, Lebanon.

Consequently, She also participated in many collective exhibits in Lebanon and overseas. Arwa Seifeddine is a member of the Lebanese Artists Association for Painting and Sculpture. Her work features in many private collections, and is displayed in the permanent collection of Sursock Museum.

In conclusion, one cannot but admire her Oil and Gouache paintings.

Moments From Within

Between construction and intuition, my painting is an intimate work, pulling out spaces and atmospheres. It is a passage to the inner world, the unseen, the dark, and, the musical.

Light is glorified in darkness. With black, it is hypnotic.

Looking inwards generates circles of aesthetic emotions. Imagination senses it. The body also. Art reveals it.

My work seeks times from within, focusing on the ambiguity lying between the interior and the exterior.

Interplay of visual paths would bring in several coexisting views of variable depths, displaying complex associations of space perceptions.

Like in a mirror, reflected thresholds of light and shadow lead to the concealed dimension.

Exploring the hidden, the ineffable, and picturing it, painting is a bridge to my inner aesthetic world, expressing moments from within and celebrating their warmth and mystical resonance in abstract metaphorical spaces.Excerpt from the solo exhibition catalogue Moments from Within, Arwa Seifeddine, 2012.

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