The Loneliness
of
Becoming
This ongoing body of work looks at how instability reshapes the feeling of home. I create intimate interior scenes where distant external events find their way into private spaces through screens, windows, and reflections.
Frontal compositions and architectural structures bring a sense of order and containment, but small shifts begin to unsettle that balance. The work follows how external realities slowly settle into everyday environments, changing how safety and familiarity are experienced.
I Found Life in Stills
This ongoing body of work is a series of still life paintings built from everyday objects, flowers, fruit, tiled surfaces, and corners of home. Through these scenes, I explore the idea of finding beauty in the everyday and paying closer attention to the small things that often go unnoticed.
Karen Madi (b. 1995) is a Lebanese-Syrian artist based in Dubai. Working primarily in painting and drawing, she creates scenes rooted in everyday life that explore feelings of home, belonging, and uncertainty. Drawing from domestic spaces and personal observations, her work examines how memory, mediated images, and events unfolding elsewhere become embedded in intimate life, revealing the ways personal and collective realities intersect. Trained in architecture and studio arts at the American University of Beirut, Madi approaches painting with an awareness of space, framing, and order, often using clear geometries and divisions to navigate the tension between stability and rupture. She has exhibited in Lebanon, Jordan, Germany, and the UAE.
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