Zena el khalil biography of mahatma

She has lived in Lagos, London and New York. Her work includes mixed media paintings, installations and performance. She also curates cultural events and publishes underground writers. During the invasion of Lebanon, she was one of the first largely followed Middle Eastern bloggers; her writings published in the international press. Download as PDF Printable version.

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Biography [ edit ]. Work [ edit ]. Solo exhibitions [ edit ]. Selected group exhibitions [ edit ]. References [ edit ]. New York Review Books. Archived from the original on 25 February Retrieved 24 December MOCA, London. Retrieved 28 February Arab Studies Quarterly.

Zena el khalil biography of mahatma

Xanadu Art. Archived from the original on 4 November Retrieved 22 January The Arab Review. Archived from the original on 11 November Retrieved 2 February Beirut, I love you. London: Saqi. Inspired by classical Tantrik manuscripts namely the tattva aspects of reality that constitute the human experience and dhikr repetition of devotional phrases , she uses words in a creative play of absolute consciousness manifesting into form.

Growing up in Lagos, Nigeria and Beirut, Lebanon, el Khalil's daily exposure to violence and war gave her an intimate understanding of suffering. Having endured multiple traumatic events herself, she turned to art and writing as vehicles for her autoethnographic works. As a graduate student, Zena found herself standing not too far from the twin towers as they fell.

This experience evolved her ultra-feminist works towards a deep research into mysticism, natural medicine and indigenous healing methods. In , she began working on healing abandoned spaces starting with her family home in the south of Lebanon. She has since been working on both sites that endured violence as well as places that were once considered ceremonial grounds such as the Phoenician temples of Echmoun and Astarte and the Roman ruins at Baalbeck and Byblos.