Caline Aoun - Biography
b. 1983, Beirut, Lebanon / Lives and works in Beirut
Caline Aoun’s work is a focused series of experimental correctives, inversions, and material resting places in a historical moment of peaking digital and virtual noise. By playfully posing the question of what happens when this noise becomes total, Aoun shows in reduced experimental arrangements how inseparably real and virtual worlds are actually linked. Instead of amplifying this media noise further, the artist concentrates it and gives it a material dimension. Through these material reorientations, we are delivered anew to our present location, we are transported to a position where we can see excess brought to equilibrium, noise into a soothing tone, and the information which overwhelms us on all sides into an aesthetic environment that makes it possible to sensually grasp otherwise intangible connections.
Aoun graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, London, UK in 2005. She received a Postgraduate diploma in Fine Art from the Royal Academy Schools, London, UK in 2009 and earned a Professional Doctorate in Fine Art at the University of East London, London, UK in 2012.
Her works have been recently exhibited at The Dock, Ireland, Desrert X AlUla, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaPalaisPopulaire, Berlin, Germany, Sharjah Biennial 14, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, MAXXI, Rome, Italy, Marfa’, Beirut, Lebanon, Centre For Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, Mosaic Rooms, London, United Kingdom, Casa Árabe, Madrid, Spain, Casa Árabe, Cordoba, Spain.
Caline Aoun was Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year 2018.