Unique Framed Print - Rise XXIII
Unique Framed Print - Rise XXIII
By Pamela Chrabieh
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▸ Features: Unique Piece Framed▸ Materials: Paper
▸ Art technique: Hybrid Art
▸ Dimensions (cm): 88.0 x 58.0 x 3.0
▸ Net Weight (kg): 15.0
Rise XXIII is an image that speaks without shouting - a silent yet thunderous presence. In this divided face, we see the tension of a lived history marked by both destruction and creation, by pain and profound beauty. One side, rendered in black and white, almost liquid, evokes erasure, memory stained by time, and the long shadow of collective trauma. The other side, bathed in gold, radiates warmth and inner strength—a quiet defiance. The gaze is steady, almost confrontational, as if asking: How far can we fall before we rise? And more deeply: How do we rise without erasing the darkness that shaped us?
Within this hybrid face live the echoes of generations of women - our mothers, grandmothers, and all the women of Lebanon and the SWANA region (Southwest Asia and North Africa), who have carried the weight of a land fractured by wars but rich in soul. These women have long stood at the intersection of preservation and transformation - sometimes silenced, but never absent. Rise XXIII is a tribute to them: to those invisible pillars, those erased from official histories but eternally present in the fabric of resilience. This work becomes a visual hymn, a silent prayer in ink and gold, for all the women who refuse to vanish.
It is not just a portrait—it is a living memory, and a quiet cry for renewal.
Original Integrated Iconography [sketch on paper and digital art using Procreate | NFT on Open Sea starting September 2022, 3,488 x 4,328 px.]. The unique print is framed: 2 cm wooden black frame and anti-reflective glass.
About Pamela Chrabieh
Co-founder and Managing Director/CEO of Kulturnest. Lebanese-Canadian visual artist, researcher, activist, writer, program manager, and consultant with extensive 25+ years of multidisciplinary and international experience in university teaching, academic research, visual arts and art direction/curation, creative communications & content creation, as well as program management, training, and conference/workshop/exhibition organization.
Dr. Chrabieh holds a Higher Diploma in Fine Arts and Restoration of Icons (1999, Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts [ALBA], University of Balamand, Lebanon). She pursued her higher studies at the University of Montreal in Quebec - Canada: Minor in Religious Sciences (1999), MA in Theology, Religions, and Cultures (2001), Ph.D. in Theology-Sciences of Religions (2005), and held two Postdoctoral Fellowship positions financed by the Governments of Quebec and Canada from 2005 to 2008.
She is the author of numerous books, articles, and various publications. As an activist, she has been a member of local/international NGOs and a member of executive committees and advisory/editorial boards of several organizations since 1995. She won several prizes in Canada, Lebanon, and the UAE.
As a visual artist, she exhibited her work in Canada, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, Italy, Spain, Greece, Poland, Hong Kong, China, Korea, the UK, the USA, and the metaverse.
Chrabieh's artistic journey, heavily influenced by her upbringing during Lebanon's wartime, has led her to seek connections between cultures, traditions, and digital expressions. Her childhood experiences, where she used art and music to cope with the horrors of war, laid the foundation for her lifelong commitment to healing collective memory wounds and promoting unity through arts and culture.
Her journey began with traditional iconography and icon restoration, followed by explorations in Kufic calligraphy and the evolution of her visual style, themes, and medium. Dr. Chrabieh's art has transitioned from traditional techniques to mixed media and digital arts. She draws inspiration from Byzantine and Syriac iconography, incorporating stylized forms and specific lighting to convey human divinization, while also addressing contemporary issues such as women's rights, intercultural dialogue, and peacebuilding.
Her art is a multifaceted expression of her identity, embracing her local and global experiences in Canada, Europe, and Southwestern Asia. Each artwork strives to bring invisible perspectives to light, convey fragments of collective memory, and bridge cultural narratives, ultimately sublimating reality without elevating it to an ontological 'hyper-real' state but presenting it as beautifully different.