CALAND, Huguette; KHOLEIF, Omar
Huguette Caland

Lebanese-born artist, Huguette Caland was a path-breaking figure in late modernism. The only daughter of the first Lebanese president, Bechara El Khoury, she produced a singular body of art that spanned media and continents. Working for more than five decades, her art is recognized for its embodied aesthetic and its unique sensuality.

In this searching critical biography, author and curator Omar Kholeif disentangles the seeming madness, velocity, and the interiority of Caland’s life. Both an epistolary memoir and a biography, Kholeif interleaves the affective experience of encountering the artist over a period of 18 years, as readers are summoned on a journey through clouds of bristling color. Here, Caland’s fields of light are set to lyric prose and poetry, fashioning a scene for looking at and experiencing the erotics of art anew. [publishers’ note]

With an afterword by Brigitte Caland.

Published by Sternberg Press, 2025
Monographs / Painting