About Us
“What we cannot say, we must above all not
not silence it, but “write it””, Jacques Derrida
Lamia EL GERMAI prefers to paint it
Lamia EL GERMAI is a self-taught painter born in Casablanca, where she lives and works. From childhood, she was interested in poetry. Later, painting was added to this passion and began to take over, eventually supplanting it.
She has several solo and group exhibitions to her credit, is co-founder of a group of 4 painters called “les passionnées d’art” and has participated in the production of 2 8-hand canvases and an exhibition at the Mohammed V National Theatre. Although the artist is rebellious and painterly extravagant, she strives to establish a Manichean balance in all her works between the new and the old, the beautiful and the ugly, man and nature, man and woman, good and evil, young and old…
Indeed, in an orderly chaos, Lamia mixes theses and antitheses, traveling from one era to another, playing with light and shade, light and shadow, creating a myriad of coherent contradictions. Her messages are “written” in counterpoint, like a melodious cantabile.
Lamia develops life scenarios through her creations, asking existential questions and then answering them with an opposite.
The answer is not necessarily to be found in the work we are looking at, but probably in another. The viewer can reconstruct the puzzle according to his or her own deciphering, wandering through the pictorial labyrinth created by the artist. Faced with his works, we can conclude neither for a configuration nor for impressionist art.
In fact, her paintings are a balanced amalgam. However, the irrationality of human beings, the absurdity of the world and the need for a spirit of revolt lead Lamiae to opt for a surrealist bent, enabling her to express the reality of her thoughts without censorship.
She is also distinguished by traces of gesture that speak volumes about her euphoria in front of her blank, sometimes oversized canvas, and her desire to escape, to fly away, to travel, to make visible the things that are best concealed. An odyssey in which she knows neither the destination, nor the duration of the journey, nor the outcome.
Like the artist, the color palette is eccentric and knows no bounds. All colors cohabit as if a relational pact united them. Fluorescent colors are not excluded, and give Lamia’s works a dazzling taste of immeasurable freedom, which puts the viewer into total disarray.
