KHALIL IBRAHIM
Painter, Printmaker and writer
about me & my work
From Logos to Layer: The Plastic Gesture between Glazing and Mezzotint
Welcome to the my website! I am Khalil Ibrahim, a Lebanese writer, painter and printmaker.
The Word:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1:1)
For obvious reasons, visual artists and art historians have long disputed the rule of the “Word” over imagery. One could argue that in a dissociative state—that is, isolated from the rest of consciousness—the need for distinctions and classifications is necessary. By contrast, the opposite could be argued when you find yourself accessible to a flow that emanates and springs from a place prior to the dissociation. From early on, this has been a privilege of my consciousness and artistic awareness. Words and sights associate themselves to other senses, such as smell, and are given and restored in a unified synergy.
2026
le couloir
“Le Couloir” (The Corridor) is initially the title of a manuscript in French that I am writing…
2022-26
belgian portraits
Since my arrival in Belgium in the summer of 2022, I have executed various portraits comissions…
2022-26
Artistic Genres
During those years, many works illustrate my renewed interest in “traditional” artistic genres, such as “nudes” and “still lives”…
2021
Itinerancy – paintings
This series is a transposition, through the medium of oil painting, of my experience and familiarity….
2021
Itinerancy – Prints
This series is a transposition, through the medium of printmaking, of the same theme that occupied me…
(2014-16)
Peripatetic Existence
This series is also part of my effort to represent peripatetic people. It has been executed a few years ago, mainly as acrylic…
1998-99
Peripatetic Existence
This series, for the larger part, constituted the body of my diploma project (1998) and…