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, Paris, a field she proceeded to work in 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 symbolic form of painting, especially portraits and human representation. Starting with a series of paintings depicting famous people, I have quickly shifted to a free representation of human faces. My interest goes to aesthetics in terms of sensitivity, not beauty. Through faces, I try to bring out all the anguish, the misery, and the depth of human turmoil. I fragment faces and bodies to reveal the various facets of men, going beyond the dictates of beauty, in quest of the truth. My inspiration in the art scene goes from Egon Schiele to Francis Bacon, as these artists have depicted the inner human condition in their paintings through body distortion and broken lines as in Schiele’s work, and Bacon’s spasms curves.“

In 2018, Mansour was part of the group exhibition « Break all frames », women diversity in art, at Beit Beirut Sodeco, an exhibition about women empowerment. In November 2021, she exhibited at 392 Rmeil 393 at Gemayze Main Street, and in June 2022, she was part of a group exhibition “Artists of Beirut” at the Arthaus Hotel in Gemayze. In November 2023, she also was part of a group exhibition “Artists of Beirut” at Rebirth in Gemayze. She is currently working on her research thesis on the “aesthetics of disfigurement in painting in Lebanon.