Mayada Shibir

“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.” (Keith

Haring)

Contemporary artist Mayada Shibir's artistic journey, influenced by her family's creative biosphere and the influences of African and European cultures, investigates the vital and material force that human life can express. His professional life influences his conception of the painting as an expressive and experiential place, where one can find feelings and life stories, but also different traditions and cultures influenced by music, poetry and art, with their respective parallels and controversies. In Self-Consciousness, the painting with an abstract vocation, we witness a veritable explosion of life and matter. Thick, light touches of colour define warm chromatic surfaces, where the artist speaks of the joy of living and its benefits. At times, however, this vitality stretches and expands into large, well-tuned colour fields that call the viewer to relax and surrender to the painting. The work experience, but also art history. Colour, light and psychic automatism: these are the components of Mayada Shibir's abstraction, which ranges from the psyche to matter, from physical reality to transcendental reality. Many masters and movements can be traced in her work, but she always maintains an artistic personality. In the abstract painting in particular, she selects emotions and conveys them. Large colour fields meet the layers of human emotions both guided by the artist's direction. Hers are experiential, living and emotional paintings, which present themselves in their purity and simplicity. They are stories told and lived, thought out and divulged that find their point of arrival in the present matter. And it is precisely matter that speaks and tells, thanks to the technique of painting and on spatula, the artist succeeds in conferring volume and relief, with glue, dye and paint.

Art Curator Giulia Fontanesi