jad el khoury
A Dialogue with Scars: The Art of Jad El Khoury Jad El Khoury, born in Baabda, Lebanon in 1988, is an artist whose work isn’t merely *made* in a post-war landscape—it's fundamentally *of* it. He didn’t inherit a blank canvas; instead, he received a city etched with the memories of fifteen years of civil conflict, a palimpsest of trauma and resilience. This inheritance shaped not only his artistic vision but also his very approach to creation. Growing up amidst the physical and psychological wounds of Beirut instilled in him a profound awareness of the power of space—how it can be both a rep…
The Subject Atlas
A chart of jad el khoury's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Spokes — Subject
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Rings — Career Period
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Threads — Shared Context
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
