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

      Dark is a color 2020–ongoing
      Handmade chromogenic and gelatin silver prints

      Dark is a color is an ongoing series of analog photographic prints that act as an optical research project on darkness within the context of Lebanon’s contemporary political and social history. Inspired by the chronic and cyclical electricity crises facing the country – specifically the power shortages and blackouts that resumed in 2020 – the series aims to address the specific ways of seeing that pertain to the Lebanese experience.

      The works look at the absence of light as a mode of perception in itself, as well as a generative and creative space. Produced entirely in darkness, without the use of a camera or negative, they are created through the choreographed exposure of matter and light onto photosensitive paper, extracting from the depths of existing images, new ones that longed to appear. 

      While photographic reproduction presupposes the mediation of light, blind photography uses its lack as a condition for visibility, a means to make images spring into being through transformation. 


      INSTALLATION VIEWS:

      Floating like you do/When you fall/In love — installation for the collective exhibition Imagine That Tomorrow at Abroyan Factory, Beirut, part of In Between Festival (British Council Lebanon), 2022.
       A thousand suns in the dark — installation in collaboration with Mia Baraka, exhibited at ArtLab Gallery, Beirut, as part of CATAPULT.visual’arts (British Council Lebanon), 2022.



      The end of Summer 2024      2024
      Chromogenic prints, unique
      20 × 25 cm


      Falling, catching
      2024
      Chromogenic prints, unique
      20 × 25 cm


      Dreams of a normal life
      2024
      Chromogenic prints, unique
      20 × 25 cm


      Peuple de la mer (Aqueous beings)
      2024
      Chromogenic prints, unique
      25 × 30 cm



      Starry Night – Sand and glass on paper             2023
      Gelatin silver prints, unique
      18 × 24 cm



      Christmas lights
      2022
      Chromogenic print, unique
      30 × 40 cm


      Snow
      2022
      Chromogenic print, unique
      30 × 40 cm


      My mother’s red geranium       2022
      Chromogenic prints, unique
      10 × 15 cm


      Another horizon
       2022
      Chromogenic prints, unique
      30 x 40 cm


      Implosions – Soil on paper
      2021
      Chromogenic prints, unique
      18 x 24 cm


      Blues – My bathroom and other lights  
       2020
      Chromogenic prints, unique
      18 x 24 cm


      Moving light  
      2020
      Chromogenic prints, unique
      18 x 24 cm

      Green light
      2020
      Chromogenic print, unique
      18 x 24 cm

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