Firetti Contemporary artist Sarine Semerjian is featured in KHAMSA's Creative Talks, where she reflects on the evolution of her multidisciplinary practice and the experiences that continue to shape her artistic language.
In the interview, Semerjian discusses her upbringing between Syria and Lebanon, the formative influence of landscape architecture, and how returning to Damascus became a defining moment in claiming her identity as an artist. She also explores the relationship between painting and movement, revealing how music, improvisation and performance have become integral to her creative process, allowing the body to lead where words cannot.
The conversation offers a deeper understanding of Semerjian's distinctive visual language, where dreamlike landscapes, the human body and the natural world merge to explore themes of identity, displacement and belonging. Looking ahead, she also shares her ambitions to further expand her practice through sculpture, artist residencies and interdisciplinary collaborations that continue to blur the boundaries between visual art and embodied experience.
