Laila Muraywid
1956 (Syrie)
Living in : Paris
Working in : Paris
It is the way of the mask that Laila Muraywid, a Syrian artist who graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus and the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris, working in the French capital since 1981, explores. Because it conceals while revealing, because it makes the subject desirable as much as it creates an inaccessible distance between the viewer and the woman who wears it, Laila Muraywid's women advance masked, the better to keep their secrets. Her works are largely photographic, but sculpture and painting are also used to make the precious appear. Sometimes assembled in polyptychs, her works, formulating a dialectic and an ambivalence of desire, gain in suggestion: the eroticism that runs through them reveals itself as a weapon. It is also the audacity of the framing, the beauty of the cuts that create their power. In them, she works on the memory of intimate moments. For several years, she has also been creating sculptures.
Living in : Paris
Working in : Paris
It is the way of the mask that Laila Muraywid, a Syrian artist who graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus and the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris, working in the French capital since 1981, explores. Because it conceals while revealing, because it makes the subject desirable as much as it creates an inaccessible distance between the viewer and the woman who wears it, Laila Muraywid's women advance masked, the better to keep their secrets. Her works are largely photographic, but sculpture and painting are also used to make the precious appear. Sometimes assembled in polyptychs, her works, formulating a dialectic and an ambivalence of desire, gain in suggestion: the eroticism that runs through them reveals itself as a weapon. It is also the audacity of the framing, the beauty of the cuts that create their power. In them, she works on the memory of intimate moments. For several years, she has also been creating sculptures.
Artist's movies
"Tomorrow in my collection with Lailma Muraywid"
Interview between Laila Muraywid and Christine Siméone on the occasion of the exhibition À Fleur de Peau.
WatchArtist's exhibitions
Jacques Bosser, Laila Muraywid, Marianne Paquin TROIS PHOTOGRAPHES À FLEUR DE PEAU
19/11/2021 - 08/01/2022
(Paris) Espace Art Absolument
19/11/2021 - 08/01/2022
(Paris) Espace Art Absolument
Une Œuvre, Un.e Artiste, Un Jour
30/06/2020 - 15/09/2020
(Paris) Espace Art Absolument
30/06/2020 - 15/09/2020
(Paris) Espace Art Absolument
Traits d’union – Paris et l’art contemporain arabe
08/11/2013 - 31/01/2014
(Rabat) Villa des arts - Fondation ONA
08/11/2013 - 31/01/2014
(Rabat) Villa des arts - Fondation ONA
Laila Muraywid - Quand le silence a des milliers d'odeurs
21/03/2013 - 18/05/2013
(Lyon) Galerie Regard sud
21/03/2013 - 18/05/2013
(Lyon) Galerie Regard sud
Traits d’Union – Paris et l’art contemporain arabe
24/06/2012 - 16/07/2012
(Sanaa) Musée National du Yémen
24/06/2012 - 16/07/2012
(Sanaa) Musée National du Yémen
Le corps découvert
27/03/2012 - 15/07/2012
(Paris) Institut du monde arabe
27/03/2012 - 15/07/2012
(Paris) Institut du monde arabe
Traits d'Union - Paris et l'art contemporain arabe
15/10/2011 - 12/11/2011
(Paris) Villa Emerige
15/10/2011 - 12/11/2011
(Paris) Villa Emerige