Alexandra Jabre

Lives and works in London, UK

Artist statement

Alexandra Jabre (b. 1985, Paris, France) is a British-Lebanese visual artist based in London. Working across painting, sculpture and printmaking, her practice explores consciousness, intimacy and the ties that shape human connection. Jabre’s work emerges from her interest in the relationship between physical and metaphysical experience. Drawing on experiences of entanglement and ancestral memory, she explores the movement between conscious and unconscious states, and how unseen forces shape her lived experience. Jabre’s work returns to questions of fate, karma and transformation, and to the possibility that certain relationships may extend beyond the boundaries of time and space. Elongated, often androgenous figures, stars, tears, eyes and luminous orbs recur throughout her work. Bodies fall, rise, or float, inhabiting spaces that are at once psychological and cosmic. These recurring forms have developed into a personal symbolic language through which Jabre gives physical form to energetic ties and memories. Dreams are central to Jabre’s process; she records them every morning. Paintings, sculptures or even entire bodies of work first appear there before being made in the studio. Jabre moves freely between two and three dimensions, choosing materials according to what each work requires. Watercolour on paper allows for transparency, fluidity and immediacy, while bronze gives physical weight and permanence to forms. Gold appears across both painting and sculpture, where its...

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