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From the art world, Vogue Arabia meets the Basbous family who have shaped Lebanon's art scene for generations. The father-daughter duo Anachar and Shana Basbous are determined to preserve the family legacy.
After years of admiring each other's artistic endeavors, the pair are currently in the process of aligning forces to work on a new joint project. "My dad's art is cosmic, energetic. It is the sun, the sky, the cosmos. For me, it is a dream," says Shana, while her father adds, "Shana is a piece of art; she is the art, even before making art. Everything about her is art, from her creations to her ideas to her reactions." Ref.
الفنانة شانا بصبوص لـ "النهار": جعلتُ النحت فنّاً يمكن ارتداؤه (صور)
“أريد أن أجعل إرثنا يسافر، وأن أبتكر قطعاً نحتية لأولئك الذين يرغبون في ارتداء الفنّ... إنها استمرارٌ لقصة عائلتي.”
نشأت الفنانة اللبنانية شانا بصبوص وسط عالم من المنحوتات، التي شكّلت لغتها اليومية. ومع مرور الوقت راودتها رغبة في جعل هذا الفنّ أكثر قرباً وحميمية من الإنسان. لذلك، قرّرت أن تُنزل النحت، الذي ورثته عن جدّها ووالدها، من منصّاته في المعارض والمتاحف ليعيش على الجسد، فتحوّله إلى فنّ يمكن ارتداؤه.
من هنا، وُلدت فكرتها في تحويل النحت إلى مجوهرات، تحمل روح الفنّ وجوهر إرثها العائلي في كل قطعة من ابتكاراتها ضمن مجموعتها الجديدة "نيزك" (Nayzak). المرجع
Sculpture You Can Wear: Shana Basbous Turns Her Family’s Art-Legacy Into Jewellery
In the Lebanese village of Rachana, where sunlight sculpts the landscape as intricately as the artists who have long inhabited it, jewellery designer Shana Basbous grew up in a world where form and poetry were inseparable. “Art was never something distant – it was my home, my language, my rhythm,” she remembers. Her grandfather, Michel Basbous, transformed the village into an open-air museum in the 1950s, embedding sculptures into its hillsides.
Her father, Anachar Basbous, extended that vision through contemporary works that capture movement in materials like stone and metal. Adding another coordinate to this constellation of creativity is her grandmother, or tata, a poet and writer responsible for filling Basbous’s world with language and light." Ref.
Unified: Father-Daughter design duo Anachar & Shana Basbous
In the hillside village of Rachana, where monumental sculptures rise among olive trees and stone speaks quietly to the sky, art is not confined to studios or galleries. It lives in the landscape, in daily gestures and in the bonds passed between generations. Sculptor Anachar Basbous and his daughter Shana, creator of sculptural jewelry, share a creative language shaped by form, movement, and trust. Together, they navigate a dialogue between monumentality and intimacy — translating large-scale sculpture into wearable works that carry heritage close to the body." Ref.