The paintings of Claude Moufarege are clearly architectural, the subjects spreading expansively through the back streets and highways of Beirut. Moufarège gives an oddly unpeopled version of the city, one glimpsed through shuttered and curtained windows, memory and physical distance. Like many, the artist has lived out of Lebanon for many years and, like many, periodically returns, remembers, paints, is haunted by a converging memory and place.
Perspective here is unclear, but we don’t need clarity, and we don’t get it here. In this painted Beirut, perspective is elsewhere.
 
Claude Moufarege is a Lebanese-French artist trained in architecture between Lebanon, France, and Canada. Since the 2000s, her pictorial practice has established itself as a sensitive language of memory and disappearance.
Her work has been the subject of two solo exhibitions in Beirut, at the Artspace gallery and at the Robert Mouawad Museum and has been presented at the Beirut Art Fair. Claude Moufarege lives and works in Paris.