Untitled (2010)
Description
Size: 120 x 100 cm; 47.2 x 39.3 in
With frame: 125 x 105 cm; 49.2 x 41.3 in
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Signed on the front lower right
Provenance
Private Collection, Lebanon. Acquired by the present owner from Agial Gallery, Lebanon.
Location
Beirut, Lebanon
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Description
Tagreed Darghouth is a Lebanese painter. Born in Saida in 1979, she studied at the Lebanese University then at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris. She was subsequently the pupil of Marwan Kassab Bashi at Darat Al Funoun, Amman.
Darghouth is known for expressionist and powerful paintings revealing violence through striking images: skulls, nuclear bombs and explosions, drones and CCTV cameras. This painting is from an earlier period during which the artist questioned aspects of her country’s society. Her exploration materialised in two exhibitions, both at Beirut’s Agial Art Gallery: Mirror, Mirror! in 2008 which disclosed portraits of ladies after plastic surgery and Fair & Lovely in 2010 which tackled the very sensitive subject of domestic helpers. Composed in the traditional mother and child (eventually Virgin and Child) scheme, this piece depicts a seated African woman carrying a sleeping white baby. Sober though inexpressive, her face bears the collective fate of migrant workers in Lebanon and elsewhere.
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