The Sandy Times published Alexandra Mansilla's interview with Chafa Ghaddar on 28 September 2024. The page title is Chafa Ghaddar, Lebanese Artist: 'Trauma Is a Shared Meal'.
The conversation opens at Al Safa Library in Dubai, where about 1,200 hand painted tiles form I Am Still Learning, and turns to why Ghaddar is drawn to large surfaces, fresco, and the way lived events enter the work. She also discusses her first gallery show at Tabari in 2022. The library commission is recorded on the site as a public project running from 4 September 2024.
Ghaddar has since shown Your Sun That Kept Setting at Maraya Art Centre and other fresco projects in Beirut and Dubai.
Mansilla also asks about scale, about why a wall of tiles in a library might matter in Dubai, and about trauma as something shared rather than only private. Ghaddar talks about blue that does not naturally belong to the city, and about asking what truly belongs here.
Tabari represents Chafa Ghaddar.
