Silhouettes sewn on canvas appear and come to life in a world where roses are replaced by thorns, birds by serpents and humanism by terrorism … Silhouettes expressing states of mind where body and clothing are confused …
As a visual artist I put myself in the shoes of a stylist and I used the scissors to cut my cloth collected from magazines, tape measure, pins, threads and needle to sew the patterns on the painter’s canvas.
Jean Lancri wrote in the catalog of the exhibition “Barcha“: “Houda Ghorbel lengthens its canvases in a vertical axis, such as unusual vertebral columns. It makes beds made up towards the firmament, towards “skies” of beds. Beds suitable for dreams, where animals and plants, flowers and foliage, threads and drawings, runs and seams, coexist. Beds, in which the artist has lodged multiple fragments of Nature’s “great sick body” so that a trance is able to slip into it, to coagulate these disparate vertebrae, in ascending columns. To transcend them in a “Transverberation” stretched like an address to heaven. “
