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2009

Farah Atassi

Painting

195 x 160 cm

Oil on canvas

Farah Atassi's paintings are positive negatives suspended between order and chaos. Her work uses objects that reveal the art of the painting. Space is structured geometrically, its lines dictated by bricks, tiles and doors. These closed, orderly areas are overwhelmed with abandoned objects - a chair here, a mirror there, accidents of form and colour in a world in black and white. Her work reflects on deprivation, emptiness and absence, and describes desolate public and private spaces, which she calls "transition sites".

Courtesy Xippas Gallery

Farah Atassi

France

Born in 1981

Although figurative, Farah Atassi's research is essentially abstract. She shares a collective consciousness concerning the surface, its density, intensity and depth with artists such as Peter Halley and Dan Walsh.
Farah Atassi has a diploma from the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris. Balancing between figurative and abstract art, she paints empty interiors and non-spaces: waiting rooms, deserted and bare private and public places have become her trademark, with allusions to Kasimir Malevitch and often geometric constructions.

Photo : Rebecca Fanuele. Courtesy Almine Rech.