Gabriella Choueifaty

  1. WORKS

    2006 (2018–2024)
Dark is a color (2020–)
Non-disclosure agreement: Focus to infinity (2021) 17th October: A story (2019)The winners (2016–2019)

TEXTS

How to make stones weep: a ? reading of Jalal Toufic (2024)

BIO

CONTACT


      Gabriella Choueifaty is an artist living and working in Beirut. She graduated with a BA in Literature and Philosophy (2015) from the Sorbonne Paris IV and a Master’s (2024) in Film Studies from the Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III. Her work has been shown in film festivals and exhibitions internationally.

      Her research-based practice is interdisciplinary, weaving together text, film, photography, sculpture, and installation. It is centered around Beirut and its context, aiming to study the mechanisms of perception that are endemic to the broader region of Lebanon. Her projects typically depart from points of intersection between the political and the intimate, exploring the place the unbearable image holds in our society and daily lives, as well as its complementary and contradictory relationship to beauty and the sublime.

      In her work, she creates fictions and confabulations that reveal critical truths through the means of excess, absurdity, and abstraction. The false is for her a way to generate worlds that can describe accurately and precisely the present real; what is to be seen, as well as what is not.

      Alongside her practice, Choueifaty also works as a camera technician on film sets. As both a researcher and a technician, her aesthetic experimentations are always doubled and guided by a conceptual investigation.