BIOGRAPHY
Johanne Issa obtained her bachelor's degree in Film Studies in 2005.
In 2008, she completed her master's degree in Visual Arts, Photography and Video Art at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA).
In her practice, she uses photography, painting,
and ceramics.
Johanne is also the art director of the winery Domaine des Tourelles, a venture that has been ongoing for over fifteen years.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
I explore how inner thoughts become images.
Thoughts can form, twist, and transform into pictures, while images can evoke new thoughts and feelings.
I’m interested in how thought and image feed each other; one shaping the other in a continuous delicate loop.
Distortion matters in my work.
Thoughts are filtered by experiences and influences before they become images, creating unique subjective realities. I aim to show this complexity and the many ways thought becomes image.
STUDIO | SHOP
CHARLES CORM STREET, ACHRAFIEH, BEYROUTH
DIRECTION ON GOOGLE MAPS
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ON GOING PROJECT | DATE STARTED 2015
THE SHOULDER, THE ARM,
THE FOREARM AND THE HAND.
From day one, my photography has centered on women; an enduring obsession. I explore how the body meets the face, especially how the shoulder, arm, forearm, and hand shape expression. By moving and posing these parts in different ways, I create space for the face to emerge and speak without words. This nonverbal dialogue allows the portrait to say everything, the face becomes a gateway
to inner thoughts and emotions, a vulnerable honest presence.
As “Emanuelle Levinas” states:
* “ Tout corps et tout l’homme est visage. Le visage, dans sa nudité en est la trace. ” Emmanuelle Levinas, extrait de Totalité et Infini: essaie sur l’extériorité,
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2019
REVERIE
This work visualizes philosopher Jean Marie FREY's interpretation of the philosophical experience of rêverie, while interpreting that our soul goes for a walk, goes out of ourselves, and returns to ourselves. Just like exhalation and inhalation, from the outside to the inside.
The soul is the source of life.
Rêverie is an opening to being.
In this series of images, I focus on the process of creating images that is strongly linked to this phenomenon of rêverie.
This desire to create images does not exist without that mental detachment.
No image without rêverie, and no rêverie without an image.
A series of 3 rêveries printed on cotton paper |
dim ; 300 cm x 200 cm
