CP Magazine published an interview with Chafa Ghaddar by its lifestyle editor, José Berrocoso, on 14 June 2026. The introduction describes the Lebanese artist as painting walls as if they were wounded bodies, with monumental fresco inspired surfaces that carry the traces of conflict, memory and time, and a practice that sits between painting, installation and spatial archaeology.
Ghaddar traces that sensibility to her childhood home, hit during a militia conflict in Lebanon's civil war in 1986. The house was not destroyed, she explains, but "wounded": its structure remained while erosion, cracks and humidity left its surfaces unhealed. She discusses the giornata, the fresco term for a day's labour, as a reminder of how bodies perform in time and space, describes colour as something that emerges slowly from within the layers rather than covering them, and talks about pushing the giornata beyond lime, sand and pigment onto canvas and paper. She also reflects on site specific work, including Manifesto of Fragility, her commission for the 16th Lyon Biennale.
Educated at the Académie Libanaise des Beaux Arts in Beirut and trained in fresco in Florence, Ghaddar has exhibited in Beirut, Dubai, Brussels, Verona and New York, and leads conversation tables and reading groups alongside her teaching. In the interview she mentions the group shows Déjà vu at Concrete, Alserkal Avenue, and Same Air at Tabari, and a solo show with Tabari planned for early 2027. Chafa Ghaddar is represented by Tabari.
