Simone Fattal at the Musée d’art moderne de Paris
The Musée d’art moderne de Paris is presenting a retrospective of Lebanese-American artist Simone Fattal through 24 January 2027. The exhibition brings together myth, architecture and the history of the Middle East through works that move between image, form and memory.
Born in Damascus and shaped by life across several countries and languages, Simone Fattal has long made work that shifts between sculpture, ceramics, drawing and writing. In Paris, the retrospective shows how she treats images as pieces of memory rather than as straightforward illustrations of a single theme.
The exhibition title, Cities at the Bottom of a Lake, already suggests a world where architecture becomes trace, ruin or buried story. For artists and drawing enthusiasts, the interest lies in the way Fattal brings forward volumes, figures and landscapes without turning them into literal reconstruction.
The show also highlights a gaze informed by ancient histories and pared-down forms. That restraint leaves room for material, outline and scale, and it invites viewers to consider how an image can carry memory without explaining everything it holds.
Source : Le Journal des Arts