Christine SafaNoces

New paintings of summer, sea and the artist’s family, laid down in thin layers of pure pigment on fresco-like grounds.

Safa, a French-Lebanese painter based near Paris, draws on time spent around the Mediterranean: studying Italian churches, returning to her family’s city of Beirut and working in her French studio. Her husband, her pet and the view from her window recur, ringed by rainbows and crowned with sunflowers.

The title, French for “nuptials,” comes from Albert Camus’s early writing on the summer, sea and sun of Algiers.

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