Bio
Maha Nasra Eddé
(B. Beirut, Lebanon. Living and working in the UAE)
Lebanese-Canadian visual artist Maha Eddé investigates the geometries of existence, tracing natural forms and the forces, both material and intangible, that hold the world in balance. Working primarily across painting, and sculpture, she moves fluidly between micro and macro, intuition and order, spirit and science, perceiving natural and constructed systems as a singular, interconnected field.
A central thread in her work is an enquiry into how the patterns and logics of the natural world mirror the complexities of human society. For Eddé, the body is continuous with nature, generated by the same structures and subject to the same logics. As both instrument and conduit in her art, it becomes a site where intuition directs form. Each painting starts with an automatic gesture, an embodied movement rooted in Surrealist automatism yet reconfigured into her own curvilinear, improvisational vocabulary. Through layering, erasure, and revision, the work negotiates inherited forms while opening space for autonomy and transformation. These enquiries carry into her sculptural practice, where ideas of form, movement, and encounter are developed spatially.
The artist’s biomorphic compositions express a shifting lexicon of forms that hover between abstraction and recognition. They might gesture towards moons, waves, or the female body - its curvature, softness, and cycles of renewal - without resolving into fixed referents. Some elements are deliberately inscribed, others emerge during the viewer’s encounter. Each work stages a play between presence and absence, fullness and void, structure and release.
Eddé’s practice resonates with a lineage of artists and thinkers who sought to bridge the bodily and the universal: Leonardo da Vinci’s anatomical studies, Georgia O’Keeffe’s organic abstractions, Hilma af Klint’s spiritual geometries, and Huguette Caland’s sensual, boundary-blurring forms all ripple through her work.
The artist holds a BFA in Design Art from Concordia University, Montreal, and worked for over a decade in photography, a background that informs her sensitivity to light, form, and composition. Since 2024, Eddé has exhibited internationally. Her solo exhibitions have included Flow (La Cantine du Faubourg, UAE, 2025); Equilibrium (TZed Warehouse, UAE, 2024); and Houle (Swell) (Galerie Riviera, France, 2024). Her work has also been presented in group exhibitions at The Canopy Program NYC (USA, 2024); Tashkeel (UAE); and East West Gallery (UAE), with a forthcoming presentation organised by the Alserkal Art Foundation (UAE, 2025). Eddé’s work is held in private collections across the Middle East, Europe, and North America. She is also the founder of 8th Street Studios in Dubai, a space dedicated to supporting the artistic community, exhibitions, and collaborative exchange.