Sehnaoui Nada
Born in Beirut in 1958, Nada Sehnaoui graduated with a history diploma (DEA – Diplôme d’études appliqués) from the University of Paris Sorbonne, and a diploma in fine arts from the school of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
She exhibited her paintings in Beirut, Boston, New York Munich, Strasbourg, Paris, London, Houston, Abu Dhabi, and Algiers.
Sehnaoui created several large-scale public installations in Beirut, and site specific installations in Tunis, Byblos, Marseille, Liege and Doha.
Winner of the Dana Pond Finalist Award of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, she also received a grant from the Prince Clauss Fund for the creation of the installation, fraction of war memory
About her Work
To SWEEP
“To Sweep”, seems like one of the common acts in our lives. From the simple daily life chore of cleaning one’s home to the more painful attempt to sweep after bombardment and wars of all sorts to sweeping after a peaceful revolution. To sweep is an act that is essential to start again, to rebuild one’s life.
Made with 420 brooms and texts exhibited first at Beirut Exhibition Center, curated by Janine Maamari in 2011 and at the Royal College of Art, London, curated by Juliana Khalaf / APEAL.
This Too Shall Pass
‘This too shall pass’ is a prayer. Living in a space and time continuously threatened by another idiotic and deadly civil war and by another devastating Israeli war, I pray, I pray that this one, this last threat, too, shall pass.
Made with 300 rolling pins first exhibited at the XXX Salon d’Automne, Musee Sursock, Beirut, 2010.