Sounding the Interior

Tamara Al-Samerraei (b. 1977, based in Beirut) and Mireille Blanc (b. 1985, based in Paris) take domestic interiors and everyday scenes as points of departure for their multilayered paintings. From these sources, each artist traces the interior in her own way—as a site for free thought, but also as a space in which fragile and fleeting memories take shape. Painting, often on a large scale, is the medium both artists choose to fix their motifs on canvas or other supports while simultaneously opening them to differing degrees of abstraction. How can we think, act, and project outward from within? This exhibition follows that question. It is curated by Ines Goldbach in collaboration with the artists.