AXELLE KURBAN
Beirut-raised, Paris-based multidisciplinary artist.
Thread Bare
TAP - Graphic Design
Threads of Resistance
Salon 11
Traces of Us
Untitled (Teta's living room)
Kooks - Graphic Design
FRAC! 40 ANS
104 Paris
Omegle Takes on Politics / Diaspora Stories
Tiras-al-Hobb
HELEM - Graphic Design
The Technicolor Odyssey of the Human Experience
Treat Me Like Your Sister
I Can’t Help But Remember
Are We There Yet / “War Breaks Out And I Don’t Know What It Means”
Spaghetti Typeface
Project Book
Never Put the Za’atar Before the Oil
A Culinary Love Note
About
A Culinary Love Note
Graphic Reflections in Familiar Spaces: Rediscovering Memories Through Object Redux.
March 2022
Graphic Booklet
This project is a continuation of my short story comic book "Mais malgré tout je me dis parfois". We were assigned to pick an object from the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and create an object redux, rethinking our object into our own projects, still in alignment with our curiosity collections.
As I was roaming in the MAD for an object that I could appropriate into my own, I had a hard time imagining what could it be, as my main themes were revolving around the subjects of growing up, mimicking behaviors and habits, as well as storytelling. I managed to allude to those themes in my reconstructed curiosity collection and decided to push my vision further for the object redux, still in line with what I had originally started with. I chose Charlotte Pierrand’s kitchen bar that she designed for Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse.
Deciding to stick with the story-telling stroll I had going, I decided to develop a graphic booklet as my object redux taking place in the famous kitchen, illustrating my loved ones in that very context. I was largely inspired by the works of several graphic story-tellers such as Marjanne Satrapi, Riad Sattouf, Allison Bechdel, but the one that stuck out to me was Richard McGuire, especially with his graphic novel entitled Here (2016) where he illustrates the story of a corner of a room and of the events that have occurred in that space throughout hundreds of thousands of years. I hence chose the kitchen as my main setting as it evokes in me an inexplicable feeling of nostalgia and warmth, which resonates with the memories that I would like to recall in this project.
Therefore, inspired by McGuire’s work, I decided to do a remake of Perriand’s kitchen, in the context of some fond memories of my childhood, depicting through them the portrayal of some of my loved ones, in a visual and textual piece.
I had the chance to showcase my object redux project as I was chosen to exhibit at the Prototypes as Palimpsests exhibition at Gallery D, which was a very nice opportunity as I gained experience and exposure.
