Maison Atfé

13/09/2026

11/09/2026

« Honestly, I don’t feel that I am revisiting the past. I speak of the present, but through forms that inhabit me and contain the past. I really cannot explain how these forms come to me, in my mind and in my body, with such insistence and without interruption. »

— Simone Fattal

Simone Fattal was born in Damascus and grew up in Lebanon. She first studied philosophy at the Ecole des Lettres of Beirut and then at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1969 she returned to Beirut and started painting. She participated in numerous shows during the ten years when life in Lebanon was still possible. In 1980, fleeing the Civil War, she settled in California and founded the Post-Apollo Press, a publishing house dedicated to innovative and experimental literary work. In 1988, she returned to artistic practice by doing ceramic sculptures after enrolling at the Art Institute of San Francisco. Since 2006, she has produced works in Hans Spinner’s prestigious workshop in Grasse, France. In 2013, she released a movie, Autoportrait, which has been shown worldwide in many film festivals.

— Biography courtesy of Simone Fattal’s official website

SOON

10/09/2026

“He who has been can no longer, henceforth, not have been: henceforth, this mysterious and profoundly obscure fact of having lived is his viaticum for eternity.”

— Vladimir Jankélévitch, L’Irréversible et la nostalgie (1974)

08/09/2026

“To live is to persist in completing a memory.”

René Char