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S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 In February, Syrian painter Layla Ousta is doing an art residency at Kaays\u00e1 Art Residency, a space where artists from various countries take turns in exchanging experiences and expanding their techniques and knowledges. The venue is at the Boi\u00e7ucanga Beach in S\u00e3o Sebasti\u00e3o, S\u00e3o Paulo state, where entrepreneur Lourdina Jean Rabieh welcomes visitors who start new projects inspired by the contact with nature and the residency itself.<\/p>\n

Ousta is from Damascus, Syria, where she divides her time between volunteering at a hospital and working at her studio. That\u2019s where she teaches calligraphy, makes works based on Arabic writings, and creates paintings and sculptures. \u201cThe most important experience in my life,\u201d she said on Wednesday (21) about her stay in Brazil. She visited the Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong> (ABCC) in S\u00e3o Paulo, accompanied by Rabieh. They were welcomed in the institution by director Claudia Yazigi Haddad. (Pictured above, L to R, Rabieh, Ousta, and Haddad)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The Brazilian nature mixed with elements that Ousta uses in her paintings are in one of her latest creations<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What amazed her the most in Brazil, she told ANBA, was the nature, particularly the butterflies and birds. Blue butterflies and toucans are part of her portfolio now. A painting she made during her Brazilian experience portrays a toucan with a commedia dell\u2019arte hat. \u201cThe hat I painted influenced by the Carnaval. The playing cards represent what life is,\u201d she says, “a game.” Other works she painted portray butterflies and bromelias.<\/p>\n

Playing card symbols are common in Ousta\u2019s painting, as well as black and white. \u201cEvery artist has their own world. I come from a bad situation. My experience here brings me light, hope,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

The opportunity to visit Brazil arose in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, last year. There she met ambassador\u2019s wife Claudia Barenco Abbas, who invited her for a residency in Brazil. Through her, Ousta had an opportunity to travel to the Latin American country for a season at Kaays\u00e1 with the support of retail chain Magazine Luiza (Magalu). Rabieh had previously welcomed other Arab artists. In January, Juahida Bittar, also from Syria, bid farewell to Kaays\u00e1. Rabieh says that other Arabs are expected to come to the coastal residency in the coming months.<\/p>\n

Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Syrian painter is in Brazil for an art residency. During a visit to the Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, Layla Ousta said the country\u2019s nature is what amazed her the most. Some of her paintings now feature the fauna and flora of the Atlantic Forest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2317,"featured_media":358353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,3066],"tags":[559,11598,22644,232,47568,26930,39215,31943,3941,29624,34490,8726,11382,14869,432,47569,47567],"class_list":{"0":"post-359297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"category-society","9":"tag-arab-brazilian-chamber-of-commerce","10":"tag-boicucanga","11":"tag-brasil-en-2","12":"tag-brazil","13":"tag-butterflies","14":"tag-camara-de-comercio-arabe-brasileira-en","15":"tag-carnaval-en-2","16":"tag-damasco-en","17":"tag-damascus","18":"tag-kaaysa-en","19":"tag-magazine-luiza-en","20":"tag-residency","21":"tag-sao-sebastiao","22":"tag-siria-en-2","23":"tag-syria","24":"tag-toucan","25":"tag-tucano"},"wps_subtitle":"Syrian painter is in Brazil for an art residency. During a visit to the Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, Layla Ousta said the country\u2019s nature is what amazed her the most. Some of her paintings now feature the fauna and flora of the Atlantic Forest.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}