Ziad Dalloul

Born in Syria and based in Paris since 1984, the accomplished painter and printmaker Ziad Dalloul (b. 1953, Soueïda) creates paintings using traditional materials such as black and sepia ink, oil, canvas and handmade paper. Through exploring the dichotomy between the static (the intimate world of lived space and everyday objects, in particular the chair, the bed, the table and the curtain), and the ever-changing (the landscape, and more broadly nature as the site of memory and questioning), Dalloul challenges definitions associated with both the East and the West while simultaneously referencing art history's relationship to his work.