Caty Cordahi

Caty Cordahi offers a collection of inviting and pleasing works. By showing expressionist representations which are full of local individuals from Oman and the UAE, easily recognized from their local attire, Caty generates in the viewers' mind a series of questions pertaining to the identity and diversity of the local populations and the relationship between local and expatriate populations.

At the outset, Caty simply aimed at immortalizing common and touristic photos into a piece of art. To achieve this, she decided to incorporate some of her pictures (of people, landscapes, and urban views) into her canvases, and build expressionism around and over them. Many of her paintings of Oman and the UAE work therefore in layers, with selected photos underneath colours, shades, and textures.

A French artist now residing in Oman, Caty Cordahi attended Fine Art classes from 1993 to 1998. She was also studying in an expressionism studio (ATEXFO) during the same period. After extensive practice in the years that followed and relocation to Oman more recently, Caty decided to translate her perception of her new host region onto the canvas.

List of past exhibitions:

Muscat, Oman

March/April 2017: Personal exhibition in the French Omani cultural center.

October 2016: City Seasons Hotel Muscat

From June 2016: Al Madina art Gallery

Dubai, UAE

September 2014: Personal exhibition in Alliance Française gallery

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

2012: Personal exhibition in Lotus compound

France

1994: Show of artistic creation – Chinon (France)

1997: Personal exhibition– Paris