At TEFAF Maastricht, the gallery's presentation in Europe dedicated to the Palestinian / Lebanese artist, Juliana SERAPHIM (Focus section | Booth 704).
The stand will showcase her Surrealist paintings from the 1950s-1990s, engaged with the liberation of female sexuality and agency, nature and spirituality. Seraphim was a pioneer of the Middle Eastern art scene of the period and was recently included in Arab presence: Modern Art and Decolonisation, Paris 1908-1988 at the Museé d’Art Moderne in Paris (2024) and Beirut and The Golden Sixties, Biennale de Lyon, (2022), together with contemporaries Etel Adnan and Hueguette Caland.
Forced to flee Jaffa in 1948, she settled in the cultural epicenter of Beirut. She was considered by many of her peers as an outsider, for her artworks didn’t explicitly address the Palestinian national cause. Instead, she developed a unique iconography and politics of her own, rooted in the relationship between spirituality, nature and femininity, making her an early pioneer of contemporary eco-feminist discourse.
Her style is characterized by layers of dreamlike, sexual imagery, outlandish cityscapes, and female ‘flower’ characters, exploring the complexities of what she called “a woman’s world” - these Femmes Fleur paintings will be the focus of the gallery's stand.
Location
MECC
Forum 100
6229 GV Maastricht
The Netherlands
Opening hours
March 13 and 14 (by invitation only)
March 15 - 20
Every day 11AM - 7PM
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