Raneem Zaben is a contemporary painter whose abstractions combine saturated fields of color with flowing, gestural brushstrokes. Her practice is rooted in an intuitive process where movement and pigment converge, creating immersive compositions that invite both reflection and recognition.
Each painting operates as a Reminder and an Invitation—an open space where viewers can connect with the depth of human experience and encounter the immediacy of presence.
Raneem AlZaben’s work captures the invisible: the pulse between worlds, the space where emotion becomes form. Every piece invites stillness and connection — a sensory experience that awakens something deeply human. Crafted with intention and presence, her paintings hold both beauty and power, elevating any space they enter.
Rooted in the experience of global diaspora, AlZaben’s practice emerges from a state of liminality — the threshold between worlds. Within this condition, divisions of land and identity dissolve, revealing the Earth itself as the primary source of compassion and connection.
Influenced by Edward Said’s concept of exile consciousness and the depth psychology of Carl Jung, her paintings translate absence into presence. Each canvas becomes a meditation on duality — the peace of ancestral memory in dialogue with the tension of resistance — rendered through rich, tectonic layers of pigment and gesture.
This process of existential labor transforms conflict into unity. Through abstraction, AlZaben constructs spaces where opposing forces coexist and ultimately converge, affirming that fracture and harmony are not contradictions but reflections of a single whole.
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