2024
Paperback 55 pages
Publisher: Richard Saltoun
Dimensions: 27 x 21 cm
Publisher: Richard Saltoun
Dimensions: 27 x 21 cm
Catalogue published on the occasion of an exhibition of works by Juliana Seraphim at Frieze Masters, London, October 2024.
The catalogue is accompanied by a text from 'The Women Artist in Lebanon' published in 1987 written by Helen Khal and published by the Arab Institute for Women at the Lebanese American University and translated Arabic articles from the 1960s–1980s.
Juliana Seraphim (b.1934, Palestine - d. 2005, Lebanon) was pioneer of the Middle Eastern art scene of the 1960s-1990s, known for her unique Surrealist style and dreamlike iconography that engaged deeply with gender struggle, the liberation of female sexuality and agency, nature and spirituality.
Seraphim produced some of her most notable works between 1960s-1990s. Considered an outsider by more politically active artists, her artworks didn’t explicitly engage with the Palestinian national cause; instead, she developed a unique, sensually visual vocabulary rooted in the perception of a "woman’s world", characterised by layers of erotic, dreamlike imagery and characters that morph into plants and flowers. She also drew inspiration from the structure of the faded frescoes of angelic beings on the ceiling of her grandfather's monastery, and former convent, in Jerusalem. She was deeply inspired by her spirituality, sexuality and her own childhood memories and upbringing.
Printed in an edition of 500 copies.
This publication was designed by A Practice for Everyday Life.
This publication was designed by A Practice for Everyday Life.
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Juliana Seraphim: Catalogue
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