Galerie Janine Rubeiz presents Ghada Zoghbi’s fourth solo show titled Between Dust and Dawn, from September 10 to October 10, 2025.
In her previous body of work, Ghada Zoghbi offered a profound meditation on the poetic relationship between humanity and the earth. This current exhibition is centred on the stones of ancient ground and the landscapes shaped by both nature and human hands, the show unfolds as a lyrical reflection on memory, transformation, and aftermath.
Zoghbi presents vast panoramic spaces interrupted by sudden plunging views, tracing the scars of exposed terrains and the shifting contours of Lebanese valleys. Her technical mastery, combined with a rare sensitivity, captures not only the visible layers of the land but also the intangible weight of time. In works that gravitate toward monochrome, each composition flows into the next, as if part of an ongoing narrative.
This new body of work marks a shift from her earlier evocations of ancestral presences to a confrontation with more immediate traces—the silence of yesterday’s events and the remains of today. The “stones of ancient earth” are now ground into dust and mud, standing as fragile markers of continuity and rupture. As viewers, we are invited to witness these fleeting imprints, suspended between permanence and dissolution: “Traces travelling in every direction, sometimes none at all.”
Her canvases bear witness to an ongoing exploration of quasi-abstract mineral landscapes infused with remnants of human presence. Charcoal marks punctuate luminous surfaces, where glowing oranges, deep blues, and muted greens intertwine in a delicate balance. The result is a chromatic language that oscillates between intensity and quietude, echoing the duality of destruction and renewal.
Wild Mindscapes unfolds less as a sequence of paintings than as a meditative gaze. The works invite us to linger in the stillness of what has been carried, left behind, and transformed. In Zoghbi’s words: “Here, there is no forward and no return—only the slow drifting of what we once carried, and may have left behind, becoming something else.”
Location: Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Lebanon.
Date: 10 September – 10 October 2025.
About Ghada Zoghbi
Ghada Zoghbi (b. 1980, Shmestar, Lebanon) is a Beirut-based artist whose practice explores the relationship between humans and their surrounding spaces. She studied Fine Art at the Lebanese University, graduating in 2010, and has exhibited widely in Lebanon and abroad. Her solo exhibitions include Regimes of the Personal (Artspace, 2016), Pretty Abandoned (Galerie Janine Rubeiz, 2021), and Wild Mindscapes (Galerie Janine Rubeiz, 2024). Zoghbi has participated in numerous group shows, including the Salon d’Automne at Sursock Museum and Institut du Monde Arabe. Represented by Galerie Janine Rubeiz, her work forms part of private and institutional collections.