Photographic artist Camille Zakharia captures memory and time in fragmented form

Sitting in a parked car in Canada one day in 1998, Camille Zakharia realised that the painted lines that create parking spaces were an allegory for his own life.

“I began to think about the nature of lines that are drawn by others, that dictated the manner in which I was able to live,” says the Tripoli-born artist, who fled Lebanon’s civil war in 1985. “At that moment I realised that my life to this point had been an attempt to navigate these lines, lines that I did not create or condone.”

The result is a series of collages from the Bahrain-based photographic artist titled Division Lines, several of which are currently on display as part of his first solo exhibition in Dubai, at Cuadro Fine Art Gallery.

Zakharia has become one of the most celebrated artists in the Middle East.

His work won the Golden Lion Award as part of the inaugural participation of Bahrain in the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010.

This year, he is the only artist from the Gulf to be represented at Italy’s Expo Milano 2015.

And even as the show runs in Cuadro, the photographs that were displayed in Venice are on display at the Barjeel Art Foundation show in Kuwait.

Zakharia, who binds just the right amount of conceptual art and personal narrative in his work, also lived in the United States, Greece and Turkey before moving to Bahrain in 1999.

Original article by Anna Seaman

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Photographic artist Camille Zakharia captures memory and time in fragmented form

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