ONCE UPON A BUTTERFLY, Said Baalbaki Solo Exhibition

A Lebanese artist whose practice is inseparable from the fractures of war, displacement, and collective memory, Said Baalbaki builds a visual world where debris becomes symbol and wreckage carries the full weight of history. His paintings operate as dense, layered fields where the remnants of conflict, tents, ropes, salvaged materials and displaced bodies surface and dissolve within compositions of painterly intensity.

This solo presentation brought together works that moved between the intimate and the monumental, each canvas demanding an engagement not only with its formal power but with the urgency of what it refuses to let go.

Gallery view of a Said Baalbaki exhibition in Qatar featuring large-scale contemporary paintings in a curated exhibition space by Mohamad Makouk for Core Art Strategies
An art gallery with white walls and polished concrete floors displaying five abstract and figurative paintings, some with colorful brushstrokes, and a sleek white modern bench in the center.
Painting of a person in a red jacket from behind, holding a large black object, standing near a pile of colored objects, with a label indicating the art piece's title and details.
An art gallery with four paintings on white walls, three colorful abstract paintings on the left wall and one large dark abstract painting on the right wall, with a white sculptural bench on a polished beige floor.
Two people, a man and a woman, are having a conversation in an art gallery next to a painting. The woman wears a striped dress, while the man wears a blue shirt and beige pants.
Two people, a woman with curly hair in a patterned dress and a man with glasses in a blue shirt, viewing abstract paintings in an art gallery with white walls and wooden floors.
People viewing artwork in an art gallery, with one person talking to another near a white, abstract, curvy sculpture.
A woman in a black dress looking at abstract paintings in a gallery