Caland moved to Paris from Beirut in 1970 to pursue a career as an artist. Across her fifty-year career she made paintings, drawings, sculptures, and textiles, working between—and beyond—the realms of abstraction and figuration. Visages is part of her series Bribes de corps (Body Fragments), in which the artist was “absorbed by an exploration of the sensual possibilities of the human body.” It features ethereal linear forms and flat expanses of paint. Each shape creates a kind of abstract body map, demonstrating Caland’s distinctive vision of feminine desire and liberation.
Gallery label from 2023