Collection: Art Her Way Hybrid Collective Exhibition

Lama Mansour Fakhoury was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1971. In 1994, she obtained a master’s degree in industrial economics from the Sorbonne University in Paris, a field in which she worked for over 10 years. It was not until 2017 that she discovered her intense passion for the arts when she began attending painting courses at Bassam Kahwagi’s workshop while completing her master’s degree in Critique d’art et curatoriat at Saint Joseph University, Beirut.

“I have always been interested in the figurative form of painting, especially in portraits and human representation. Starting with a series of paintings depicting famous people, I quickly shifted to a freer representation of human faces. My interest lies in aesthetics in terms of sensitivity, not in terms of beauty. Through faces, I try to bring out all the anguish, the misery, and the depth of human turmoil. I fragment faces to reveal the various facets of humanity, going beyond the dictates of beauty in a quest for the truth.”

“My inspiration in the art scene ranges from Egon Schiele to Francis Bacon, as these artists have depicted the inner human condition in their paintings - through body distortion and broken lines in Schiele’s work, and Bacon’s spasmodic curves.”