Charbel abou Zeidan
Interdisciplinary abstract Artist, Bridging Architecture, Fashion, and Art

I work across architecture, fashion, and visual art.

Born in Lebanon and based in Belgium, I see these disciplines as interconnected ways of thinking and making.

Each informs the other: architecture shapes my understanding of structure, fashion brings attention to surface and construction, and visual art gives me space to test material, color, and form.

My multidisciplinary practice began with studying Renaissance artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. They worked across painting, sculpture, and architecture, and showed me that an artist does not need to be confined to one medium.

Their example shaped my approach: I am driven by curiosity and a hunger to understand different techniques and materials.

I draw on methods such as imprimatura, layered form, and repetitive, meditative strokes, adapting them within a contemporary practice.

A principle guides my work: ‘It takes a lot of knowledge to look this simple.’ I am drawn to wabi-sabi, the Japanese philosophy that finds beauty in imperfection and impermanence.

My work is reduced to what feels essential, but that reduction does not erase process. It leaves room for marks, mistakes, material shifts, and the unexpected.

I work with silicone, latex, plaster, charcoal, pastel, paint and textiles.

I stitch and build material from flat surface into relief and three-dimensional form.

My color work is complex and layered, moving between color and monochrome, plane and volume, the organic and the graphic.

I highlight what is usually hidden: serged seams, the reverse of canvas, silicone moulding, and traces of making.

These elements are not secondary to the finished image; they are part of its meaning. Beauty can be found in imperfection, and surprise can change how we look.

Growing up amid war taught me that chaos and creation are complementary. My work is restrained and precise, while remaining attentive to what has been overlooked.