Ink on paper, framed #01-2023 Artwork

BIO Artist, architect and designer, Josephina Charabati was born in Germany from a German mother and a Lebanese father. She moved to Lebanon as a child and grew up in Beirut. In1991, she graduated with a Master’s in Architecture and attended in parallel Psychology courses at the Lebanese University in Beirut. She worked in Architecture practices in Germany &Lebanon before establishing DASTUDIO in 2000.: A workshop where, architecture, design & art meet in a perpetual process of research and experimentation. University teacher since 2017. She started exhibiting her art work in 2000. Her art has been shown in Lebanon and internationally, including in Geneva, Zurich and Amman. In 2021, she was selected to exhibit at the London Art Biennale. She also undertakes private and public commissions — including site-specific works for banks and public spaces — and, thanks to her architectural background, is able to fully integrate her artistic vision into built environments with precision and sensitivity to context. Instagram: josephinacharabati.art PHILOSOPHY From wall objects, to sculptures, ink drawings and found objects assemblage, Josephina Charabati infinitely explores about our path and transformation through distance and time. Her work tackles social and philosophical themes such as migration, recurrence and the wabi sabi concept of acceptance and resilience. THE EXODUS COLLECTION “Where do we go now?” The English name Exodus comes from the late Latin “Exodus” or from ancient Greek “Exodos” meaning “going out, expedition, departure", "mass migration, exiting of people from an area”. With reference to Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of eternal recurrence or the idea that the universe and its events have already occurred and will recur ad infinitum, the artist questions about the migration phenomena over the eras, specially over the last decades in the Middle East region. In this part of the world constantly shaken by social, religious, economic and political issues, mass migration is faced every day. As an architect, she expresses the interaction of the “human” with space, scale, voids, infinity and above all, silence. Humans in their eternal seek within an abstract context. From an existentialist point of view, the individual's starting point is characterized by what has been called "the existential attitude" or a sense of disorientation, confusion, or dread in the face of an apparently absurd world.