Language on linen
Disciplines
Private Collections
Lana Khayat’s practice weaves together nature, memory, and the unseen threads of history. Her work explores the spaces between silence and expression, using material and gesture as a means of translation. Whether through thread, pigment, or form, she creates visual languages that invite the viewer to listen more closely, not just to what is said, but to what is remembered.
On Language Language in Lana Khayat’s work is not written to be read. It is felt, traced, and transformed. Drawing from ancestral scripts such as Phoenician and Tifinagh, her paintings do not replicate language — they abstract it, stretch it, allow it to unravel and reform. These marks are not messages. They are echoes.
On the surface of the canvas, the letter becomes gesture, and the word becomes rhythm. Symbols from forgotten or suppressed languages are reimagined, not as artifacts, but as living forms. They float, repeat, dissolve, and reappear, like memory itself.
Through this work, Khayat asks not what a language means, but what it holds. She approaches script as landscape, as lineage, and as a form of resistance. Each canvas becomes a site of quiet reclamation — where the visual speaks louder than the literal.
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