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Exhibition​ ​2:​ ​Huguette​ ​Caland
Born into a cosmopolitan and political Beiruti family in 1931, Caland was the daughter of the first President of the independent Republic of Lebanon, but defied social expectations and moved to Paris in the 1970s to
pursue a career as an artist. This exhibition explores the artist’s sustained engagement with lines over the course of her remarkable and diverse oeuvre. The artist’s interdisciplinary practice, which traverses art, design, and
fashion, has historically been framed in terms of eroticism and the body. Exhibition 2 illuminates the often overlooked …