Projects

The series visualises the heartbreak following and the void left after the explosion in Beirut on the 4th of August 2020, and the brutal aftermath.

The sketches portray the Anater Zbeide river and the roman bridges still standing today across the Fall and Spring metamorphosing seasons.

Generation of Mutilation is a series that deals with Aristotle’s text Generation of Animals in which women’s bodies are seen as “mutilated males,” and thus sub-human. Here, ink and watercolor bring out the mutilated, androgynous and fragmented body within the surface of the canvas, to make visible and appropriate the aestheticization of this mutilation and…

Atlas is a continuation of Krikorian’s work highlighting androgyny in her representation of the human body. The bearing gestures of the bodies allude to the struggle of the contemporary digitalized human condition. The effect of the ink highlights the fragmented bodies and their materiality. Each Atlas brings out a new story, where the titan Atlas…

Inspired by her travels to Japan, Krikorian captured the essence of the movement and colour of the gorgeous koi fish and their cultural impact in Japanese gardens.

Exhibited at the American University of Beirut (AUB) Gallery in the exhibition “Facing the White Cube” In Shah ‘Abbas’ own Album painting entitled Shah ‘Abbas with a Page Boy (1627), Muhammad Qasim depicts the Shah in a subdued but relaxed state. This state of luxury and complexity – where the wealth of the pleasure garden…

Almost fainting with terror she [Europa, the Phoenician Princess of Tyre, Lebanon] glanced back, As she was carried away, at the shore left behind. As she gripped one Horn in her right hand while clutching the back of the beast with the other, Meanwhile her fluttering draperies billowed behind on the sea breeze. – Ovid,…

The series depicts intimate gestures of the everyday, and their significance.