CP Magazine published a profile of Chafa Ghaddar by Jose Berrocoso on 14 June 2026, tracing her training at the Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts in Beirut and her subsequent study of fresco technique in Florence back to a formative experience: her family home in Lebanon was damaged during the country's civil war, and the cracks and humidity damage that followed became a lasting reference point for her work.
The article sets out her method in some detail, describing her use of the giornata, the fresco painter's unit of a single day's work, and her materials of lime, sand and pigment, increasingly combined with oil paint on canvas and paper at a larger scale than traditional fresco allows. It names her Wounds series, begun on paper in 2018 and since extended to canvas using lace techniques, and Manifesto of Fragility, her commission for the 16th Lyon Biennale, alongside her more recent exhibition Your Sun That Kept Setting. Ghaddar is quoted summing up the bodily logic behind the work: "I associate wall to body, flesh and skin."
The piece places Chafa Ghaddar's practice at the point where architecture and body meet, and it notes her participation in the group shows Deja vu at Concrete, Alserkal Avenue, and Same Air at Tabari Artspace, alongside a planned solo exhibition with Tabari Artspace for early 2027, making it a useful marker of where her fresco-and-body research stands going into that next show.
