artist/ Daoud

France et Liban

Born in Lebanon in 1970, David Daoud fled Beirut with his family in 1978. After studying at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris, he joined the National School of Decorative Arts where he trained with the famous sculptor Charles Auffret. In 2011 he was the winner of the Frédéric de Carfort Prize from the Fondation de France. In 2020 he was the winner of the Hermitage Foundation prize, and two of his works were acquired by the Institut du monde Arabe in Paris for their permanent collection.
Having experienced exile, his works are an invitation to travel. “I paint the exodus, the journey, all my work breathes the exodus. I experienced it myself. » David Daoud. Marked by this past, he creates drawings and sculptures evoking the lives of anonymous characters who create a tangible dynamic. Where are they going ? Towards a bright future, a vanished past? Do they look deep into their souls towards the jolts of their evanescent memories? David Daoud’s drawings and sculptures play on the oscillation between introspection and headlong flight.
His portraits, in bright red or deep black, allow us to appreciate the importance of the line. Sculptural lines that punctuate the page, they give the faces a very particular expressiveness. If Davis Daoud’s main concern is to move the viewer, he plays on the purity of lines to point out an emotion, a vibration in the gaze, an almost theatrical expressiveness which illuminates the work.