BLIND DATE 2.0
ALIA FARID, DANIELE GENADRY, BAYAN KIWAN, FARAH AL QASIMI, TALA WORRELL
Blind Date 2.0
March 13 – July 17, 2024
beirut
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Daniele Genadry (*1980 in Baltimore, USA, lives and works in Paris, France and Beirut, Lebanon) works with painting, photography and print, to examine how light is captured and perceived. Her overexposed landscapes are painted in very precise, thin, brushstrokes, using a pointilliste technique in pastel and neon colors with pinks, purples, and blues. The paintings seem to capture sceneries in the quiet dawn or night hours, confronting architectural elements in ghostly white with a silent nature. The artificiality of the images, captured first in photograph, is consciously repainted with a very flat application of the color on the canvas. The painted reinterpretations of the original photos almost show the pixels of prints, but rather than capturing light, the works seem to produce it, inviting the viewer to step into deep, glowing, monochromic atmospheres.