Biography
Amale Freiha Khlat (b. 1972, Beirut, Lebanon) is a British/Lebanese artist concerned with the everyday banality of the spectacle of war that surrounds us on our screens. Bringing in disparate elements from internet and videogame culture, Amale's work encompasses sculpture, video, sound and print. Her research has been looking into translating and communicating her memory of war through various forms and objects. It encompasses multiple aspects with the imperative to always use destruction and creation which work from the void.
Her installations contemplate the theatre of the world through different scenes and windows, playing with the senses and perceptions of spectators and reminding them that looking is a relational act based on selection and exclusion.
Poetic rather than polemic, whilst retaining its political force, her tactic for fostering critical distance whilst having an emotional resonance, allows the viewer to see current events from a different perspective, an essential tool in a media saturated world.
Amale holds an MA in Print from the Royal College of Art in London, a sculpture degree from Heatherley Art School in London, and an MA in Graphic Design from Penninghen in Paris.
Selected Exhibitions
2024
The Radical Residency VIII, at Unit One Gallery, London, UK.
2023
Chemistry of the Blueprint, The Handbag Factory Gallery, London, UK.
2022
Chapter One, 404: Resistance in the Digital Age + Chapter Two, 404: Surveillance is Surveying, RAGE Collective, University of Bologna’s DAMSlab as part of Arte Fiera, Italy.
The Measure of All Things, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London, UK.
Assemble, VO Curations, London, UK.
2021
Reflections: contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa, British Museum, London, UK.
2020
The Lute on the Silk Road, Baghdad, 786 to 809, Hangzhou Art Book Fair, China.
Light and Dark Cloudy Shadows, Gilbert Bayes Award, The Royal Society of Sculptors, London, UK.
2019
The Proscinium, Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Buckinghamshire. Spotlight Award, The Royal Society of Sculptors, London, UK.
404: Resistance in the Digital Age, RAGE Collective, Centre of Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, UK.
2018
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, UK.
RCA Secret, London,UK.
Surface DEEP, Robert Burt Gallery, London, UK.
Blue Horses, The London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK.
SHOW 18, Royal College of Art, London, UK.
Hold your horses, hold them and never let them go, CGP Gallery, London, UK.
2017
So Many Things Happened Today 2, Kingsgate Project Space, Millimetre 02, London, UK.
RCA Secret, London, UK.
Bapor Tabo(o), RAGE Collective, Art Licks Weekend, London, UK.
Network, RAGE Collective, Movement Gallery, Worcester, UK.
Odious Smell of Truth, RAGE Collective, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK.
Freshly squeezed, CGP Gallery, London, UK.
Work in Progress Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK.
2011
Through the Eyes of a Child, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.
2004
Lebanon: the artist’s view II, Cork street gallery, London, UK.
2003
See life differently, The Life Center, Holland Park underground station, London, UK.
1996
Être, Galerie Rochane, Beirut, Lebanon.
1995
Hommage to Nicholas Poussin’s 400 years and His Four Seasons, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
Artist talks
2022
Lecture, University of Bologna, Italy.
2020
Art in the Digital Reproduction Symposium, Paris College of Art, France.
2019
Lecture, CFCCA, Manchester, UK.
2018
Lecture, BA Drawing class, Camberwell College of Art, London, UK.
Awards, residencies
2024
The Radical Residency VIII, at Unit One Gallery, London.
2019
Spotlight Award, collaboration between the Royal Society of Sculptors and the Brooke Benington Gallery, Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer Gallery, Buckinghamshire.
2018
Gilbert Bayes Award, the Royal Society of Sculptors, London.
Highly Commended Award for the Arts and Humanities Dissertation, the Royal College of Art, London.
2011
Arte Laguna Prize, Nappe Arsenal, Venice.
1995
LVMH Young Artists’ Award, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris.
Private Collection
British Museum, London, UK.
Education
Amale currently lives and works in London.
2018 MA (distinction) from the Royal College of Art, School of Arts & Humanities, Print , London, UK.
2010 Sculpture Diploma from the Heatherley Art School in London, UK.
1995 BA - MA (high honors) from Penninghen, l’École Superieure d’Arts Graphiques, Paris, France.