يوسف فتيس
Youssef Ftais
“From fracture rises light, where pain and love transform darkness into rebirth.”
From the darkness of fracture, I open a window to the light, where color devours the shadows so that light may be born. My figures are ghosts of pain and hope, dancing between the blackness of silence and the redness of revolution, like a chaos restrained by love.
Within the body of the painting lies the trace of war, and between the folds of color, lamentation blends with song. I do not paint reality; rather, I liberate the body from its restraints toward the horizons of interpretation. It is an eternal journey from darkness into radiance, where the self dissolves into the kingdom of love and death.
Acrylic painting · 2 works
Youssef Ftais
Artist profile
Born
1966 · Zuwara, Libya
Practice
Acrylic painting
Education
- Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Tripoli — graduated 1992
- Advanced art studies in France, 2000–2003
Awards & recognition
- Former director of Beit Al-Funoun, Tripoli
- Named among five emerging Libyan artists to watch in 2021
Timeline
- 1997–2000
Taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tripoli.
Source - 2015
Profiled working from his Tripoli studio during Libya’s civil war.
Source - 2016
Featured in the International Figurative Biennale in California.
Source - 2023
Co-presented Water’s Call with Najla Shawkat Fitouri in Tripoli and Tunis.
Source
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