The Texture Of Water, Rim El Jundi

Opening Reception: July 31, 2024, at 5:00 PM

Exhibition Dates: August 1, 2024, to August 31, 2024

Open Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM

Water doesn’t possess a visual texture. It is deceitful. It borrows the texture of surrounding objects to create an illusion. Knowing its texture is illusory is what draws me to it.

“The Illusion of Worlds” takes the viewer on a journey to escape the familiar world and leads us toward another. This journey is not just an escape from the city; it’s a personal reflection on living in the present moment, here and now.

Rim El Jundi is a city girl, a self-proclaimed hybrid. She paints life as it unfolds. Her life is here, there, or on the way somewhere else, always in Lebanon, even if influenced by thoughts of escape, migration, and movement. Now, she paints a small parcel of land, a safe haven in the village of Aamchit, her cocoon. This world centers around a swimming pool, captured in neat, hot slices of blue. There is no wider world. Here, El Jundi writes, she can place her hand on the illusory texture of water.