By Amal Issa 
In her fourth solo exhibition at Galerie Janine Rubeiz (10 September–10 October 2025), Lebanese artist Ghada Zoghbi invites viewers into landscapes that breathe like wounds. Titled “Between Dust and Dawn,” the show explores memory, belonging and the spaces we leave behind【743944390413642†L32-L47】.
After examining the permanence of ancient stones in her 2024 exhibition “Wild Mindscapes,” Zoghbi now turns to fragility. The stones of yesterday have been ground into dust and mud; panoramic views are interrupted by scars etched into Lebanese valleys. These works ask how memory persists when the land itself is shifting【743944390413642†L41-L47】.
Zoghbi’s technique matches her themes. She dilutes acrylic pigments with water to create transparent washes, anchors drawings through marouflage, and ignites passages of warm colour with charcoal marks【743944390413642†L52-L60】. Many paintings lean toward quasi-abstract mineral landscapes, suspending the viewer in a fragile present【743944390413642†L66-L73】. Born in 1980 in Shmestar, Zoghbi has long resisted borders—from works like “Regimes of the Personal” (2016) and “Pretty Abandoned” (2021) to two decades of teaching art before focusing on her own practice【743944390413642†L78-L84】.
Rather than offering despair or hope, “Between Dust and Dawn” dwells in the in-between where silence and memory drift. The paintings stand as quiet witnesses to destruction and regeneration, turning traces of the past into living art【743944390413642†L88-L93】.
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