MARY KAADY

My artwork swings between painting and sculpture. My style has changed many times while I attempted to find myself and my artistic identity. The Beirut Explosion was an experience that helped shape my identity. Art in my point of view is a way to escape and to take refuge at the same time.

Beirut Resurrection Gypsum, wood, resin, metal mesh, acrylic 70cm x 50cm October 9th, 2020

Beirut Resurrection is an art piece about the collapse that happened in Lebanon on August 4th, 2020. Beirut will never die and despite its destruction it will rise again. This piece of art is about resurrection after death. That’s why this piece is divided into two parts. The first is the front view where the floor is ruined and the buildings are burned and destroyed, the blood of injured people is everywhere. The second part is the backside where the buildings are clean and absolute, their color is light, they are reconstructed and the floor is white and clean.

Suburbs is about the suburbs, the space surrounding Beirut.

Suburbs Wood, gypsum, acrylic 90cm x 60cm 2019

Life and Death

People are surrounded with the sorrow of the dead, who’re divided between soul and body. The dead, at the moment of goodbye, are suspended between earth and heaven, between life and death. He will leave as a soul from the earth and go to heaven. There the body will have another place to live and then will become ephemeral.

The ascendance Cement, mesh metal, gypsum, wood 110cm x 55cm July 2020

Between life and death Cement, mesh metal, gypsum, wood, red fabric 95cm x 40cm June 2020

Between heaven and earth Cement, mesh metal, gypsum, wood, red fabric 150cm x 90cm June 2020