الامارات العربية المتحدة - دبي United Arab Emirates - Dubai
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Majida Nasreddine - Lebanon/United Arab Emirates Visual artist and member of the Emirates Fine Arts Society since 1995. She considers nature her primary teacher and inspiration. She has explored various schools of art until she reached pure abstraction, where the impact of an object becomes more eloquent than its presence. She works with the music of color, as if she hears it more than she sees it. She has experimented with black ink on canvas, viewing the canvas as an old wall on which she writes whatever nostalgia and memory come to her mind. Throughout all her experiences, she has been like someone searching for a homeland and a refuge. Nasreddine began drawing with charcoal, coffee, turmeric, onion peels, and beetroot from a young age, due to her inability to acquire the colors she wanted at the time. She made houses from old magazines and shapes from candy wrappers that are still fresh in her memory. She had no idea this was called recycling or sustainability. Majda is interested in experimentation, using unconventional materials such as coffee grounds, used tea bags, and many other materials that no one would think of, in addition to watercolors, acrylics, and ink. She has held six solo exhibitions in Lebanon and the UAE, and has participated in hundreds of group exhibitions locally and internationally, including the Sharjah Biennial, the Tehran Biennial, and the Sikka Art Festival, to name a few. Last year, her works related to sustainability were selected for an exhibition as part of COP 29, which was held in Azerbaijan and then traveled to Bahrain, Italy, and then London. She also participated in the Pisa Symposium in Italy and was honored as a guest of honor at the first edition of the Dubai International Art Festival. She was recently honored in Morocco for her long artistic career at the first edition of the International Academic Forum for Fine Arts, organized by the Art Wave Association.
She has participated in art juries and presented workshops for adults and children on watercolors, coffee, and recycling. She combines art and education through her workshops and creative content on YouTube. She has also completed literary projects, including children's books, poetry, and drawing. In 2020, the Dubai Culture Authority granted her the status of "Certified Talented Creative" and she was one of the first artists to be granted the UAE Golden Visa in recognition of her artistic contributions.