Saloua Raouda Choucair was an artist with the mind of a poet, the soul of an architect, and the precision of a mathematician. In Self-Portrait (1943), Choucair boasts the natural universality of her craft. Light and shadow are seen as geometric shapes rather than hues, which creates rhythm and depth. This painting is truly at the crossroads of different eras in the artist’s body of work, proving that Choucair’s avant-gardism was not bound to any specific art history, but naturally embodied multiple histories at once.
This is the first time the work of Saloua Raouda Choucair is presented at Biennale Arte.
—Fadia Antar
