Daniele Genadry

2024 Artist-in-Residence

Jul 27

Daniele Genadry is an artist whose practice focuses on the relationship of painting and photography, which she uses to examine the potential of an image to generate its own temporality, and sensitize our perceptions. She studied at Dartmouth College, NH (BA 2002) and at the Slade School of Art, London (MFA 2008). She has been awarded residencies at the Bronx Museum, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Fondazione Ratti, Frans Masereel Centrum, and was a fellow at the British School at Rome (2013-14), the Bogliasco Foundation (2019) and Camargo Foundation (2021). Recent solo exhibitions include Staring in Place, In Situ Gallery, Paris; Slow Light at the Beirut Art Center; and Recomposing Light at Centre Intermondes, La Rochelle. Her work has been exhibited at MUCEM, Sursock Museum, Sharjah Biennial 13, Biennial del Sur, SMBA and the Bronx Museum. Genadry lives and works in Beirut and teaches at the American University of Beirut.

Installation view, *Staring in Place*, 2020, In Situ, Paris. Photo by Marc Dommage.
*Staring at the surface (grey),* and *Staring at first sight (pink)*

*Barriers (Obstructed Vision),* 2020, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 85 x 114”. Photo by Marc Dommage.

Artist Statement

My recent work has started from the premise that in order to reclaim sight (and site), the eye has to be brought to an awareness of its own physical movements: squinting, adjusting, dilating- in order to trigger a conscious way of looking and an awareness of the local conditions of that sight. My works -paintings, drawings, prints- propose landscape images as glimpses that are seen all at once, but rather than as a quick flash, the paintings are quite tenuous, often with a fading effect embedded in the image itself. They try to incite a specific way of looking, a heightened or apparitional vision, where you can notice what is in the process of disappearing. For me, what is being lost, in addition to an equilibrium with/in nature, is an ability to see fully and directly. My work aims at creating a surface/situation where durational (slow, long) looking can occur, and where a visual encounter with a natural motif can serve to place or ground one in time and space (in a conscious present).

At Tusen Takk

Daniele will spend time at Tusen Takk on a new body of work that engages directly with the surrounding landscape (Lake Michigan) and expands her ongoing research of light movements and the animation of sight. She plans to work on paintings, drawings, and prints examining light through a sustained and repeated view of the lake. Studying qualities of light in relation to bodies of water has consistently attracted artists (modern painting included), and she is interested in both a direct experience with and a reflection on these specific conditions in relation to painting. This practice considers works of certain modern artists (Monet, Signac, Bonnard) whose paintings’ proposed new ways of seeing and capturing nature in their time, as well as more contemporary works, such as paintings by David Hockney, Lois Dodd, Alex Katz among others, in order to reflect on how current visual modalities and technologies affect our way of looking at and engaging with the world.