Agial Art Gallery

Born in Lebanon, Paris-based artist Mireille Kassar has developed a rich and varied body of work that includes paintings, drawings, sound, films, writings and installations.

Kassar has exhibited internationally since 1996. Her works are held in various private collections around the world. She is currently featured in the project "Mantek al Tayr/The conference of the birds" at Agial Art Gallery in Beirut, Lebanon- May 2013- and at "Center A", Vancouver in 2014.

This exhibition will feature part of her "Landscapes" series, a group of works on paper exploring the notion of landscape as a dimension, rather than a pictorial subject. Here, the landscape is treated as an expanded state of consciousness, often beyond or beneath language. It can be perceived as a readjustment of the sensorial experience, shifting from any discursive thought, hence "recognized" as an archetype of sorts, a primal recognition sensation.

It is from the exploration of her earlier theme titled "state of being" that her recent artistic approach is developing. As the cornerstone foundation and regeneration of her practice, 'Painting' orients, organizes, and convokes other forms of art, all in dedication to this search.
Her artistic and spiritual pursuit leads her to close encounters with individuals, beings and lands, whose very geographical or cultural remoteness is the pledge of a singular proximity. Distance, proximity, dispersion, time unfolding, cyclical, linear or otherwise, are often the parameters and the constants that animate the heart of her life's work.

*"Mantek Al Tayr" is inspired by the book of Jalal Din Attar.

Landscape, Vision - Group of Works 2007 - 2013