The National published Melissa Gronlund's interview with Chafa Ghaddar on 14 September 2020, under a headline on why the Lebanese artist is focused on frescoes, and why they give her goosebumps.
The conversation is tied to a presentation at Tashkeel, not to a Tabari exhibition, and the gallery is not named. Ghaddar talks about the medium, its surfaces, and the time it holds. The interview is earlier than, and distinct from, card 251, The National's later report on her Dubai exhibition in April 2023.
She has since shown Beneath Latent Skies at Tabari, fresco projects in Beirut, and Your Sun That Kept Setting at Maraya Art Centre.
Gronlund lets Ghaddar explain why the medium still gives her a physical reaction, and why she keeps returning to walls, lime and colour. The 2020 Tashkeel context is institutional, and the later Tabari and Maraya exhibitions show how the practice grew after this interview.
Tabari represents Chafa Ghaddar.
