Judith, 2022
Initiated in 2022 against the backdrop of a catastrophic surge in femicide across Lebanon a systemic crisis that remains brutally ongoing this series of graphic ink drawings reclaims the narrative of female survival through the lens of radical retribution. The project draws direct conceptual and iconographic inspiration from Caravaggio’s Baroque masterpiece, "Judith Beheading Holofernes." Yet, where art history has traditionally isolated Judith as an exceptional, singular heroine acting on behalf of the state, these illustrations domesticate and multiply her revolt.
By translating the grand theatricality of the Baroque into intimate, starkly patterned domestic spaces, the works confront the reality that for countless women, the home is a battleground. The figures are rendered with an uncompromising, raw physical autonomy. They actively dismantle their oppressors, subverting the historically passive female nude into a site of violent resistance and ultimate justice. In these frames, the blade is passed from the historical myth to the contemporary survivor, transforming absolute vulnerability into an act of definitive, structural reclamation.
