Title: Where do lovers go
Artist: Rana H. Slim
Year of execution: 2022
Size: 70x50 cm
Technique: Acrylic painting on canvas

The emptiness of the contemporary world increasingly places the individual at the center of an ephemeral reality, which celebrates itself in a rhetoric as grandiloquent as it lacks substance. The surrounding environment thus becomes a labyrinthine receptacle of vain simulacra, shining in their bewitching superficiality. The work Where do lovers go by Rana H. Slim, on the other hand, strongly emphasises the need to rediscover what is truly essential, in a frank and sincere language that speaks directly to the heart.The artist expresses the triumph of a pure, authentic feeling, which ignites with lively enthusiasm like the magenta red of the two hearts depicted, placed side by side as if to support each other. With her work, Rana brings before our dull eyes the urgency of a universal truth and moving beauty, reminding us once again of the absolute centrality of art, which aspires by definition to shake numb consciences to embrace a different way to see the world.