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DANIELE GENADRY
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About the Artist
Daniele Genadry (b. Baltimore, 1980) is a Lebanese/American artist whose work explores conditions and contemporary modes of perception through painting, photography, and print. Often centred around landscape themes, Genadry’s paintings aim to physically engage viewers by demanding focused adjustment for the apprehension of the painted image. She is known for her ethereal paintings, which may appear blurry and offer varying degrees of visibility. Genadry’s focus is on post-war Lebanon, delving into the potential of images to create their own sense of time. Her objective is to provide a heightened and intense perspective capturing moments of presence, fragility, and disappearance.
As Lebanese philosopher Fares Chalabi has remarked: “The apparitional paintings of Genadry are therefore not compositions but rather modulations of light allowing the whole painted motif to appear in front of us either in a flash or as a progressive coming forth.”
Genadry has had solo exhibitions of her work at the Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (2022-2023); Centre Intermondes (2021); Beirut Art Center (2018) and The Sursock Museum, Beirut (2016). Group exhibitions include Sfeir Semler Gallery (2023) The Boghossian Foundation, Brussels (2021); MUCEM, Marseilles (2019); 13th Sharjah Biennial (2017); Biennial del Sur (2017); SMBA, Amsterdam (2014); Fondazione Pastificio Cerere (2014) and The Bronx Museum, New York, (2013). She is a recipient of the 2023 Munn Artist fellowship award at Giverny, FR. Genadry is an Assistant Professor of Studio Arts at the American University of Beirut.
Image: Daniele Grenady, Photo @ Fares Chalabi, 2018.
IN THE COLLECTION
Daniele Genadry, "Shimmer (Sea)", 2023
Acrylic and oil on canvas
80.5 x 98.5 cm
Shimmer (Sea), 2023 is part of a body of work that Grenady initiated with philosopher Fares Chalabi during an artist residency at the Centre Intermondes, Ethnopôle Humanités Océanes in La Rochelle (2021). The aim of this project was to show how the experience of the Lebanese wars and the post-war context influence our experience of the world, and subsequently our way of seeing and apprehending things.
In this body of work, Genadry takes inspiration from the Italian Renaissance painter Fra Angelico, renowned for his ability to portray apparitions, such as in The Annunciation, creating an aura of unreachable space. Similarly, Daniele Genadry uses light itself to explore the concept of apparitional paintings, capturing moments that bridge belief and reality.
In Shimmer (Sea), 2023 Genadry captures the flickering light and movement on the surface of the sea. By adding colour bars to the sides of the canvas, Grenady calls attention to the image as a contained reproduction of reality, which contrasts with the illusion of boundlessness that emanates from it. The undulating rhythm of the sea is disrupted by a beam of light, evoking the idea of an apparition.
At a time when societies are confronted with information overload, new technology and the incessant consumption of images, Genadry’s work offers a space of respite and contemplation, an invitation to observe and be in the present moment.