Pilot: Anfeh
Art Residencies in Anfeh
2 Art Residencies in Anfeh
Between September and October, 2 artists completed their residencies in Anfeh.
Ghina Sibaii is a Lebanese visual artist who holds a BA in Interior design from the Lebanese American University in 2000.
Ghina worked on many projects in Lebanon and abroad. She works with various materials and mediums, though her main work is Production design and Set design her passion for art and photography never stopped. In 2013 she renewed her passion for photography and started to take photographs of old ruined houses in Lebanon. In 2013 she exhibited with the artist Mohamad Khayata exhibition entitled "Bits and Pieces" and created an installation art in Beirut Art Fair entitled “Drop of Art” .Her first solo exhibition was in 2017 at 392rmeil393 entitled “The Memory of a Wall” (painting and photography), in 2017 in a collective entitled “three and a half” and lately in 2019 a collective entitled “seven spices” both in photography and art medium.
Johnny Semaan is a Beirut-based Syrian artist born in Lattakia in 1983. Semaan graduated from Damascus University with a bachelor degree in fine arts in 2007. After that he worked for four years as an instructor at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Tishreen University in Lattakia. He obtained his master's degree in plastic arts from the Lebanese University in Beirut in 2019. He is also the recipient of the 2019 Boghossian Foundation Prize in Lebanon for painting. Semaan participated in several solo and group exhibitions both locally (in Syria and Lebanon) and internationally. In his works, Semaan focuses on the human anatomy, through which he explores themes related to human nature and social life.