ARWA SEIFEDDINE Born 1953, Beirut, Lebanon. Artist-painter. Arwa Seifeddine earned her diploma in Interior Architecture with High Distinction from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD); Paris, France in 1982. Adjunct faculty at the Lebanese American University, Arwa joined LAU (formerly BUC) in 1984 teaching interior design, color theory and foundation courses. Her personal artwork (Painting) incorporates spiritual and architectural elements. It seeks moments from within, focusing on the ambiguity lying between the interior and the exterior in abstract architectural spaces. The hidden dimension in “Space” remains the main search in her art. Arwa’s first solo exhibition was held at the UNESCO Palace in Paris (France) in 1988, followed by three other solo shows in 1996, 2012, and 2018 at Agial Art Gallery Beirut, Lebanon. She participated in many collective exhibits in Lebanon and overseas. Seifeddine’s work features in many private collections, and is displayed in the permanent public collection of Sursock MuseumBetween construction and intuition, my painting is an intimate work, pulling out spaces and atmospheres. It is a passage to the inner world, the unseen, the dark, and, the musical. Light is glorified in darkness. With black, it is hypnotic. Looking inwards generates circles of aesthetic emotions. Imagination senses it. The body also. Art reveals it. My work seeks times from within, focusing on the ambiguity lying between the interior and the exterior. Interplay of visual paths would bring in several coexisting views of variable depths, displaying complex associations of space perceptions. Like in a mirror, reflected thresholds of light and shadow lead to the concealed dimension. Exploring the hidden, the ineffable, and picturing it, painting is a bridge to my inner aesthetic world, expressing moments from within and celebrating their warmth and mystical resonance in abstract metaphorical spaces.