VANESSA GEMAYEL: Le Cri de la Ville

VANESSA GEMAYEL

Vanessa Gemayel is a Lebanese- American artist living in Beirut.

Following exhibitions in Lebanon such as the 2009 Salon d’Automne, the 2010 International Art Exhibition Lebanese Diaspora, and the 2011 New Talents, Vanessa held her debut solo exhibition at Artlab in 2013, titled “I Dreamed of a City Where Roofs Were Pastures, Sheep Were Clouds…”

“Vanessa Gemayel stages her city, her Beirut, which in her early works engulfs the canvas, made luminous by the richness of jeweled facades… an oriental princess’s adornment. But, clear-eyed, she also knows the backstage behind the seductive set, the strings, the machinery’s gears that can shift the stage lighting from royal blue to midnight blue…”