Artist statement :
Gabrielle Bejani is a French-born, Lebanese artist currently based in London. Bejani’s work sits at the intersection of drawing and painting; her collage-driven practice primarily employs ink and watercolour, occasionally she incorporates fragments of everyday life, such as dried flowers, stamps, and other ephemeral traces. Bejani creates fragile, dreamlike figurative compositions that explore the relationship between emotional vulnerability and dignity in the context of profound/visceral/immediate political hardship.
Her art addresses themes of exile, indigeneity and war, which give rise to collective emotional wounds and needs that she attempts to actualise through the evocative power of aesthetic experience. Through her work, Bejani aims to help people process and recognise emotions such as pain, grief, rage, and hope. Guided by the feminist belief that hope is a practice and the decolonial pursuit of reinstating rituals in daily life, she examines how these emotions can and should be intentionally expressed in the world, serving as remedies for despair and fear. Her pieces depict scenes that evoke these intense feelings, aiming to analyse them and to encourage viewers to create space for their own dignifying processes/potential. Bejani's practice investigates how a commitment to softness and radical vulnerability can represent an understated form of strength.
Using semi-translucent Japanese paper, she experiments with revealing, veiling, and sculpting; torn pieces are arranged with precision yet held together by the faintest touch of glue, sometimes appearing on the verge of drifting apart. Delicate yet rugged, her works embody both fragility and resilience.
About
Born in 1995 in Paris, France lives between London and Beirut
contact: Gabrielle.bejani@gmail.com
Education:
2021 - 2023 MFA Slade School of Fine Art
2015 - 2018 BA in Fine art and history of art at Goldsmiths University of London
Exhibition History:
Deliberate dreams 2025 — Saleh barakat gallery — Beyrouth
Talent Libanais 2025 — marie du 5eme — Paris
Anatomy of a soaring Lion 2024 — Set Lewisham — London
Painting (at the moment) 2024 — 0207 gallery — London
Brockley Boogie Woogie 2024 - Royal George’s Pub - London
A Reach 2023 — The London Art Board — London
FEMME 2023 — Ladies drawing club — online show
Eviction Notice 2023 —Pocket trap contemporary — London
Paroxysm 2023 — Westbeth Gallery — New York
Slide a glance 2023 — ASC gallery — London
L’art au gallo 2021 — Atelier le gallo — Paris
2021 - Culture is the vulture that stole my ice cream — private flat — Paris
2021 — I want your drawings! 3 of obsessions — Gallery nueva — Madrid
2021 — A studio, Somewhere, Half a Century Away — Ladies Drawing Clüb — online exhibition
2020 — Life on Venus I: The Landscape — The tube Hackney — London
2020 - pervland — Barck Floop independent art space — warsaw
2019 - Rencontre contemporaine en Sud Luxembourg — galerie du cheval blanc — Arlon
2018 - woolwich contemporary print fair — London