Zein Daouk

Based in Beirut, Zein Daouk is a multidisciplinary architect with an obsession for creating & a passion for ceramics. Her work embraces the dialogue that links disciplines by highlighting the fluid narrative between function & sculpture. She explores form by working with the four Elements; flowing Water stretches shapes into the Earth, Air commits them to form & Fire becomes the founding act that brings them to life. A harmonious combination of biomorphic forms emerge & push the sculptural vocabulary until the form becomes something mysterious & new. At the essence of her craft lies an insatiable curiosity to learn. “It takes a mind quiet enough to appreciate silent beauty, courage not to fear spontaneity, willingness to accept things as they are: graceful in their delicate asymmetry. It hinges upon the ability to slow down, to shift the balance from doing to being, to grasp the subtly graceful, the quietly sculptural… In the walls of clay forms, secrets unfold: nothing is finished & nothing is perfect; all is revealed as the clay peacefully flows & the muted words softly take form.”