Après le déluge, June-Sept. 2025. 26 Pigments and oil on canvas, 114×162 cm. (Credit: Image provided by Rayane Al-Rammal)
Rayane Al-Rammal is a PhD candidate at Paris Cité University and a Lebanese anthropologist. She is a lecturer in political philosophy and cultural anthropology at Paris Cité and Sciences Po. Syrian Painter Nagham Hodaifa wishes to convert the humiliated and violated spectator into a dignified witness. In her upcoming exhibition, “Incandescence,” she makes a delicate plea for us to step into the rampant fire of this erupting volcano that is our world. She beseeches us to emerge thereafter as light, if possible.If an artistic series of this sort could have a clearly delineated impulse, it would be — in the voice of the artist — the unremitting Israeli assault on the lifeworld that once was Gaza and the more recent, no less abominable, genocidal massacres carried out in the southern Syrian governorate of Sweida against the minority Druze...
Rayane Al-Rammal is a PhD candidate at Paris Cité University and a Lebanese anthropologist. She is a lecturer in political philosophy and cultural anthropology at Paris Cité and Sciences Po. Syrian Painter Nagham Hodaifa wishes to convert the humiliated and violated spectator into a dignified witness. In her upcoming exhibition, “Incandescence,” she makes a delicate plea for us to step into the rampant fire of this erupting volcano that is our world. She beseeches us to emerge thereafter as light, if possible.If an artistic series of this sort could have a clearly delineated impulse, it would be — in the voice of the artist — the unremitting Israeli assault on the lifeworld that once was Gaza and the more recent, no less abominable, genocidal massacres carried out in the southern Syrian governorate of Sweida against the...
