Ghada Zoghbi

Between Dust and Dawn

September 10 – October 10, 2025

 

In her most recent exhibition Wild Mindscapes (2024), Ghada Zoghbi invited us to contemplate the poetic relationship between humanity and the earth—particularly through the lens of stones of ancient Earth, landscapes formed by nature or human hands.

In this new body of work, Zoghbi succeeds in offering a more intimate vision.
Vast panoramic spaces and sudden plunging views trace the marks and scars of exposed grounds. With mastery of technique and a rare sensitivity, she renders the aftermath of Lebanese valleys and landscape vistas.

Her compositions are furtive, often leaning toward monochrome, where each work leads intuitively to the next. She reflects with metaphysical weight: “In the confusion between times, movement gathers weight. One frame can hold it still, an image. Released, it dissolves, a memory.”

Where Zoghbi once evoked ancestral presences who walked these lands, she now confronts us with the traces of yesterday or even today’s aftermath. The “stones of ancient earth” have been ground into dust and mud. As spectators, we stand witness to this silence—fresh memories ploughed into the immediacy of the present: “Traces traveling in every direction, sometimes none at all.”

Her paintings bear witness to her ongoing exploration of “quasi-abstract mineral landscapes,” infused with remnants of human presence. Charcoal touches illuminate glowing colors, where warm oranges meet blues and greens, shaping a poetic harmony across the canvases.

The exhibition unfolds as a meditative gaze: “Here, there is no forward and no return—only the slow drifting of what we once carried, and may have left behind, becoming something else.”

Hanibal Srouji