Young Collectors Auction - exhibit-E

YoumnaHABBOUCHE1982Lot 025'Des Montagnes De Questions' Signed, Dated, Numerated30 X 79 cm. Photograph Printed on Photograph Paper Luster (1/6) 2009Estimate (US$ 1,500 - 2,500)Born in Lebanon in 1982, Youmna Habbouche received a BA in graphic design from NotreDame University in 2003. Taking an interest in photography as she pursued her degree,she became a fulltime artist upon graduation and has since worked with several differentmediums including animation. Working on a number of experimental projects amongstBeirut’s emerging generation of multidisciplinary artists, she has taken part in eventsthroughout the city and held her first solo show at The Running Horse gallery in 2009.Highlighting her photographic series of triptychs, “The Rule of Three” received positivereviews, most notably from The Daily Star, which described her work as “playful” and“strikingly vivid.”Juxtaposing several different images within a single composition, Habbouche underscoresthe interconnectivity of seemingly divergent elements. Of these photographs the artistexplains:I am not in search of concepts, but I am more interested in series, connections betweenrandom photographs that were taken at different times. As a result of this, I have slowlygravitated towards diptychs and triptychs. This choice has granted me more freedom, thefreedom to see connections that I had not noticed before, and associations that did notexist previously.