Stories & Windows
| Dimensions | 40×50 cm |
|---|---|
| Artist | |
| Medium | Acrylic on Canvas |
| Year | 2017 |
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About this artwork
“Stories and Walls” by Etab Hreib feels like opening a book written in color and silence. The painting hums with life domes, windows, and balconies overlap like pages from different times, each holding a whisper of what once was. Hreib does not paint a city as much as she resurrects one built from longing, layered in memory, alive with absence. The violet tones breathe dusk, that fragile hour when the day dissolves into reflection. Rusts and reds pulse beneath, as if the walls themselves remember of laughter, of departure, of quiet endurance. The balcony in the foreground becomes a threshold between observer and remembered life, between what we see and what still speaks beneath the surface.
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About the Artist
Etab Hreib’s life has been one of motion, resistance and luminous creation. From the shifting houses of her Syrian childhood, moving from Aleppo to Tartus and finally settling in Damascus, she learned early that home is more than bricks: it is a memory, a colour, a departure.
Her style is expressive-abstract watercolor narrative, that swirl with green vigour, sky-blue liberations, streaks of red rebellion, and deep black grief. Yet the overall palette remains rich, optimistic, full of possibility rather than surrender. She creates simple motifs, a house on a hillside, a tree leaning toward the wind, a window open to dusk, but imbues them with emotional depth and personal geography.
