Artist statement :

Gabrielle Bejani is a French-born, Lebanese and Palestinian artist currently based in London. Her work sits at the intersection of drawing and painting; her collage-driven practice primarily employs ink and watercolour on Japanese archival paper. She creates fragile, dreamlike compositions, sometimes figurative, sometimes abstract, which explore the emotional ramifications linked to diasporic condition, indigeneity and experience of war. In her painting she aims to materialise these affects, giving form, weight, and credibility to these inner states.

She is interested in working between reality and phantasmagoria. Moving between the testimonial and the speculative, she meddles account of felt experiences with construction of imagined, reparative, and utopic ways of being.

Bejani understands her art as a form of care, offering a space for recognition, processing, and aspiration, as well as re-alignment between inner experience and the external world. Drawing on the idea of artistic practice as ritual, she considers how aesthetic experience can act as a balm and a tonic, opening space for reflection, restoration, and transformation.

Using semi-translucent Japanese paper, she works through processes of revealing, veiling, and layering. Torn fragments are arranged with precision yet held together by the faintest touch of glue, at times 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, Paris 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:

Dialogue with a world on fire - 2025 — Raw gallery — London

Look at this if you love me - 2025 — SET Lewisham — London

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

Paroxysm 2023 — Westbeth Gallery — New York

Slide a glance 2023 — ASC gallery — London

Culture is the vulture that stole my ice cream- 2021 — private flat — Paris

I want your drawings! 3 of obsessions- 2021 — Gallery nueva — Madrid

A studio, Somewhere, Half a Century Away 2021 -— Ladies Drawing Clüb — online exhibition

pervland - 2020 — Barck Floop independent art space — warsaw

Rencontre contemporaine en Sud Luxembourg - 2019 — galerie du cheval blanc — Arlon

woolwich contemporary print fair - 2018 — London