Chafa Ghaddar Studio Film Interview

Maraya Art Centre presents Your sun that kept setting, a solo exhibition by Lebanese artist Chafa Ghaddar's which portrays a landscape in various acts.
Chafa Ghaddar draws inspiration from the historical fresco technique originating from the pre-Renaissance, a method of mural painting in which freshly laid lime plaster is applied in segments, embedding paint in its moist surface until it dries.
Stemming from the idea of giornata (“a day's work” in Italian), Chafa Ghaddar’s masterful engagement with the fresco technique presents the idea of the fragment as an autonomous entity. The artist challenges the traditional notions of fragments as remnants of ruins or part of a process, encouraging viewers to consider the fragment in its entirety. Each artwork is constructed based on different fragments, aiming to convey the idea of pars pro toto, meaning that a part of something is taken as representative of the whole.