Lebanese artist Huguette Caland during her years in Paris between 1970 and 1987. (Credit: Jacques Prayer)
Huguette Caland, a Lebanese painter, sculptor and fashion designer, was remarkable not only for directing her mischievous and subversive gaze outward but also for turning it inward. Referring to her extra weight, she would joke, “This is my excess baggage.” Yet, those familiar with her work might argue that this "extra weight" was, in fact, an excess of freedom — an internal force she carried as part of her identity. Read more Reopened once again, the Sursock Museum breathes new life into the works in its collection In 1970, imagine the daughter of Bechara al-Khoury, Lebanon’s first post-independence president, the niece of prominent Lebanese politician and writer Michel Chiha and the mother of three children, deciding to leave it all behind and move to Paris. By then, Caland was determined to shed the roles of daughter, wife and...
Huguette Caland, a Lebanese painter, sculptor and fashion designer, was remarkable not only for directing her mischievous and subversive gaze outward but also for turning it inward. Referring to her extra weight, she would joke, “This is my excess baggage.” Yet, those familiar with her work might argue that this "extra weight" was, in fact, an excess of freedom — an internal force she carried as part of her identity. Read more Reopened once again, the Sursock Museum breathes new life into the works in its collection In 1970, imagine the daughter of Bechara al-Khoury, Lebanon’s first post-independence president, the niece of prominent Lebanese politician and writer Michel Chiha and the mother of three children, deciding to leave it all behind and move to Paris. By then, Caland was determined to shed the roles of daughter,...
