Born in Beirut in 1972, Lamia Joreige is a multidisciplinary visual artist and filmmaker. She studied at Rhode Island School of Design and, since the mid-1990s, became a key figure in the generation of post-war artists who intertwined new practices. Her art tackles the relation between autobiographical and individual stories and collective memory, using archive and fictional narratives. In 2009, Joreige co-founded with Sandra Dagher the Beirut Art Center.

Lamia Joreige has been showcased internationally and was among the artists selected for the first national participation of Lebanon at the 2007 Venice Art Biennale. Her works are part of museum collections such as Tate Modern, London, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Nicéphore Niépce Museum of Photography, Chalon-sur-Saône, Sharjah Art Foundation and Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha.

Around 2000, Lamia Joreige undertook a series of abstract paintings entitled Variations, where she inserted organic shapes that could remind parts of the human body, including, for this piece, blood cells. The artist used wax and various inks on papers that were transferred on canvas. Constructed with the addition and removal of material, whether it is paint or paper, the Variations challenge the relationship between presence and absence, a fundamental theme in the artist’s trail.