Nevine Bouez

Artist Biography

Following her Master’s degree in Fine Arts at the Oxford School of Design, Nevine Bouez delved into a wide array of artistic mediums over the years. Art is an integrative part of her life, and her journey has evolved from painting, etching, interior decoration, and intricate porcelain design, to her passion for hand built ceramics. Her relentless hands strive to express the transformative and healing ability of mother earth as well as human nature alike.

In the 2017 Salon D’Automne, she won the Audience Choice Award at the Sursock Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Beirut for her two towering ceramic sculptures. In 2018, the Janine Rubeiz gallery presented Bouez’s ceramic sculptures and wall hangings in a solo exhibition titled ‘Echoes of Earth’ as well as at the Abu Dhabi Art Fair. Bouez also participated in the Beirut Design Fair, exhibiting her series “From Mud to Gold” in 2018 and “Tarbouch” in 2019.

Bouez has recently participated in several fundraising events. She has donated two works to benefit the Elisa Sednaoui Foundation, as part of the contemporary curated sale at Sotheby’s London. She has also participated in LIFE “Beyond – Modern and Contemporary Lebanese Art and Design” at Phillips London by donating two large ceramic sculptures.
In 2020, the artist participated in Sotheby’s London fundraising auction “To Beirut with Love” by donating a large ceramic sculpture.

In 2022, Bouez had a solo exhibition at Galerie Tanit, Beirut titled “Beneath The Water, The Earth Takes Shape” curated by Clémence Cottard Hachem, where she showcased more than 50 ceramic pieces including wall-sculptures and installations.

Her creations have found beautiful homes in cities like London. Cairo, Dubai, Paris, Beirut, and New York.
Exhibitions
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ART DUBAI 2024

From Februrary 28, 2024 to March 3, 2024

Selected Works
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Beneath the Water, the Earth Takes Shape

It all begins with colonies of entities shaped by hand within the clay, a fabulous desire to create form, and with it, a sense of the infinite embedded within the body of each of the elements: water, earth, fire and air.

Like a secret garden unveiled, this exhibition by ceramicist Névine Bouez invites us on a journey that wends its way to the heart of the creative spirit of the elements. This garden is a special place where flamboyant utopias, intimate embraces, both eternal and fleeting, cycles and enigmas of rebirth are all preserved and expressed. It is a place of wonder that restores meaning to time as it explores the true nature of life.

Restoring this meaning to time and to the hand that shapes, questioning the cosmic scale and nature of all that is living; that is the voice of ceramics today. The series presented here are influenced by the plant and animal kingdoms, and explore aspects of the complexity of aquatic environments, making use of an abundance of formal languages. The shapes etched by the earth beneath the oceans, the formation, life and death of coral reefs, the memory of the sand, the melancholy of running water, the reverie elicited by an aquatic garden, all provide crucial keys to the creative inspiration of the artist.

Here, Bouez’s talent gives form to the wealth of secrets contained within the waters and the earth, exploring both the infinitely vast and the infinitesimal. Her approach leaves its distinctive stamp upon her containers, stele, murals and the installation itself, provoking us to reflect on the wonder of the Living in all its curious, fabulous and tragic whole. Above all, we are invited to listen carefully to the prophecies borne within the waters, to sense the fragility of our planet and its ecosystems, and raise our awareness of the need to counter the ecological crisis, a disastrous consequence resulting from an overall lack of sensibility.

In order to preserve what remains of beauty on earth, and despite the expressive power of silence, we sought to lend a voice to the inexpressible, enhancing the imaged dynamics of words. Consequently, we offer a choice of possible names that are ascribed to things. The intent is to open up and reveal the deeper import of what is expressed in order to encourage us to think, and perchance, to dream.

– Clémence Cottard Hachem

Translated from French by Aviva Kashmira Kakar
Beneath the Water, the Earth Takes Shape
Nevine Bouez
30
Ceramic Raku
2022
58 cm x 38 cm x 21 cm

Nevine Bouez
4
Ceramic Stoneware
2022
58 cm x 29 cm x 15 cm

Nevine Bouez
Untitled
Ceramic Raku
2022
6 cm x 36 cm

It all begins with colonies of entities shaped by hand within the clay, a fabulous desire to create form, and with it, a sense of the infinite embedded within the body of each of the elements: water, earth, fire and air.

Like a secret garden unveiled, this exhibition by ceramicist Névine Bouez invites us on a journey that wends its way to the heart of the creative spirit of the elements. This garden is a special place where flamboyant utopias, intimate embraces, both eternal and fleeting, cycles and enigmas of rebirth are all preserved and expressed. It is a place of wonder that restores meaning to time as it explores the true nature of life.

Restoring this meaning to time and to the hand that shapes, questioning the cosmic scale and nature of all that is living; that is the voice of ceramics today. The series presented here are influenced by the plant and animal kingdoms, and explore aspects of the complexity of aquatic environments, making use of an abundance of formal languages. The shapes etched by the earth beneath the oceans, the formation, life and death of coral reefs, the memory of the sand, the melancholy of running water, the reverie elicited by an aquatic garden, all provide crucial keys to the creative inspiration of the artist.

Here, Bouez’s talent gives form to the wealth of secrets contained within the waters and the earth, exploring both the infinitely vast and the infinitesimal. Her approach leaves its distinctive stamp upon her containers, stele, murals and the installation itself, provoking us to reflect on the wonder of the Living in all its curious, fabulous and tragic whole. Above all, we are invited to listen carefully to the prophecies borne within the waters, to sense the fragility of our planet and its ecosystems, and raise our awareness of the need to counter the ecological crisis, a disastrous consequence resulting from an overall lack of sensibility.

In order to preserve what remains of beauty on earth, and despite the expressive power of silence, we sought to lend a voice to the inexpressible, enhancing the imaged dynamics of words. Consequently, we offer a choice of possible names that are ascribed to things. The intent is to open up and reveal the deeper import of what is expressed in order to encourage us to think, and perchance, to dream.

– Clémence Cottard Hachem

Translated from French by Aviva Kashmira Kakar

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