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AMALE FREIHA KHLAT

Amale Freiha Khlat is a Lebanese/British artist based in London whose work encompasses sculpture, painting, video, sound and print. She has translated and communicated her memory of armed conflict through various forms and objects, with a specific focus on the everyday banality of the spectacle of war that surrounds us on our screens. Her art encompasses multiple aspects with the imperative to always use destruction and creation which work from the void.

Her installations play with the senses and perceptions of viewers, reminding them that looking is a relational act based on selection and exclusion. 

In 2019, the British Museum acquired a series of her prints on the refugee crisis entitled “The Perilous Journey III" for their Middle Eastern Collection. In 2018 she was the recipient of the Gilbert Bayes Award from the Royal Society of Sculptors in London, and was awarded in the summer of 2019 a solo exhibition a Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer. Khlat also won the LVMH Young Artist Award in 1995 and exhibited her work at the Carrousel du Louvre, the Royal Society of Sculptors in London, Manchester’s Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, the London Art Book Fair at the Whitechapel Gallery, the Saatchi Gallery, Galerie Rochane in Beirut and most recently at the Hangzhou Art Book Fair in China.

Khlat graduated with distinction with an MA in Print from the Royal College of Art, London and holds an MA with the highest honours in Graphic Design from Penninghen in Paris and a diploma in sculpture from the Heatherley School of Fine Art.