Julia Hashem

Julia Hashem is a Lebanese artist who is currently based in London. She received her BA in Studio Art from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon and is currently doing her MA in Fine Art at the Chelsea College, University of the Arts London. Julia Hashem works predominantly in painting that is often informed by photography. Her subject is rooted in her Lebanese identity through architectural and urban references within her paintings, but also a sense of light and space particular to her own experiences from cities in which she has lived. Her work is concerned with the temporality of buildings and the relationships that they both allow and deny between us as humans. Her work also questions what it means to paint from a photograph, to take a photograph with theintention of painting it, and the choice that is made with what is carried from the photograph into the painting. Julia's reflections on this series of works Through your window: "What does it mean to look through your window, while you are not there? An observation of the quiet, an acknowledgement of your undeniable presence. Observing from a distance, a distance that stays between us. Do you ever look into my window while I am away? While I peer in, I’ll allow time and space to continue functioning as they please. Waiting for something, I don’t know yet. Observing, never intervening, I’ll see you again when I come back."