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Randa Maddah’s
Surrealist Cosmologies
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“Randa draws on the visual languages of surrealism and Middle Eastern miniature painting, forming intimate, self-contained worlds.”
Randa Maddah is a Paris-based artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture and installation, informed by her upbringing in Majdal Shams in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. Raised within the Druze community, where beliefs centre on cycles of reincarnation and spiritual continuity, her art approaches life, death and return as interconnected states. Her practice has been presented internationally, including at Palais de Tokyo. Across media, Randa constructs immersive pictorial worlds that bring together political reality, lived experience and speculative imagination.
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Randa Maddah
Hanging Gardens, Heavy Fruit #1, 2026Oil on Canvas
50 x 70 cm
19 3/4 x 27 1/2 in -
Randa Maddah
Hanging Gardens, Heavy Fruit #2, 2026Oil on canvas
50 x 70 cm
19 3/4 x 27 1/2 in -
Randa Maddah
Hanging Gardens, Heavy Fruit #3, 2026Oil on canvas
50 x 70 cm
19 3/4 x 27 1/2 in -
Randa Maddah
Hanging Gardens, Heavy Fruit #4, 2026Oil on canvas
50 x 70 cm
19 3/4 x 27 1/2 in
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Randa MaddahHanging Gardens, Cherry Orchard, 2026Oil on canvas200 x 200 cm -
Randa MaddahHanging Gardens #5, 2023-2024Oil on Canvas146 x 97 cm -
Randa MaddahHanging Gardens, 2025Oil on canvas90 x 200 cm ( Each ) -
Extending the visual language of her Hanging Gardens series into book form, Randa translates the sensorial and symbolic density of her paintings into a more explicitly narrative structure. Her publication has a fairytale-like cadence, moving from singular image to layered sequence; motifs recur, shift, and accumulate meaning across pages. Working through collage, hand printing, and stitched interventions, Randa’s multimedia approach lends the work an expressive, deliberately open quality, where the tactile presence of the artist’s hand is present throughout. Rooted in the landscapes and imaginaries of the Golan Heights, her book carries forward the series’ preoccupation with ecstasy, liberation, and cycles of return.
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Randa MaddahArt Book, 2026Mixed Medium637 x 35 cm




