Maria Massaad

In her surreal, charged oil paintings, Maria Massaad (Lebanon, 1999) tends to unacknowledged wounds, rendering the inner world through a network of intertwined vessels that guide the viewer from one scene to another, like veins or roots circulating life between organs.

In a world where silence, escapism, and denial are often preferred, Massaad approaches painting as a process of creating a route to the wound, a form of dissection. Understanding the self demands a willingness to cut beneath the surface and confront what lies within. Her biomorphic forms and unsettling landscapes operate as a terrain—psychological, spiritual, or real—where boundaries between interior and exterior can dissolve. In this space, truth can emerge, whether as a low whisper or a piercing scream.

Past Exhibitions:

  • Market at Beirut Art Center, 2025

  • Market at OffRecord, Beirut, 2025

  • Stitches at Tota, Beirut, 2025

  • To Die by the Pines at Gallery C6, Barcelona, 2025

  • I Am Here (Group Show) at Espacio 88, Barcelona, 2025

  • Les Maux Silencieux at Zilzal, Barcelona, 2025

  • For Palestine at Nun, Barcelona, 2025

  • Group Show at La Clandestina, Barcelona, 2024

  • Group Show at Casa Moura, Barcelona, 2024

  • Group Show at Atoneu L’Harmonia, Barcelona, 2024

  • Les Maux Silencieux at La Conxita, Barcelona, 2023

  • Prosa Visual at Re-Read, 2022