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Randa Maddah’s
Surrealist Cosmologies
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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.
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 work 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, personal memory and speculative imagination.
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Randa MaddahHanging Gardens, Cherry Orchard, 2026Oil on canvas200 x 200 cm -
Working on oil on canvas, Randa draws on the visual languages of surrealism and Middle Eastern miniature painting, forming intimate, self-contained worlds. Within these compressed fields, she explores displacement, rebirth and spiritual continuity, shaped by her lived experience of occupation and distance from home. Her work engages a wide intellectual field, from Mesopotamian and Sumerian mythologies to writers such as Jorge Luis Borges and Edward Said, whose reflections on imagination, exile and belonging resonate within her practice.
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Randa MaddahHanging Gardens, 2025Oil on canvas90 x 200 cm ( Each ) -
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