Azza Abo Rabieh is a Syrian artist living in Beirut. Her work, sensitive and sensuous, moves with dexterity between painting, drawing and printmaking, her subtle shapes and lines developing in a seamless eroticism between technique and form.
Her work inhabits this world in a state of lightness, almost play, almost delicate, almost crude. In her exacting surfaces there is a truth to experience, to hope, to what could be if only we would see, feel, perhaps abandon ourselves to depth.
Layers upon layers of closely woven tulle or net are arranged carefully yet definitely on surfaces, creating precise and delicate counterpoints to line, a sensitive depth of colour to match their strength. Without knowing we know that the layers are many, the depth is clear. Depth again, lightness again.
Lightness meets depth, dives to the deeps of the sea and finds yet a lightness there, a joy, eroticism, that is exactly as it is, as it feels to be in the lightness and depths of great passion, of sex, of love. The lightness is that of becoming one, the depth of the experience, touch. The simple and joyful confusion of bodies, hearts, minds.
