Les songes agitant mers et lumières, 2020, oil on canvas, 118 1/8 x 118 1/8 in. Private collection 
Le soupir des lueurs, 2020, oil on canvas, 98 3/8 x 78 3/4 in. 
Les ondes silencieuses, 2020 oil on canvas, 250 x 210 cm (98 3/8 x 82 5/8 in.). 
L’écume des protecteurs, 2020, oil on canvas 22 x 16 cm (8 5/8 x 6 1/4 in.). Private collection 
Le ciel souffle d’un souffle aride, 2020. Oil on canvas, 8 5/8 x 6 1/4 in. Private collection 
Vent des lumières, 2020. Oil on canvas, 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. Private collection 
Feu du ciel, 2020, oil on canvas, 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. Private collection 
Les champs aveugles, 2020 oil on canvas 24 x 19 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.). Private collection 
La fonte des cieux, 2020. Watercolour, paper, 14 1/8 x 10 5/8 in. Private collection 
La fonte des cieux, 2020. Watercolour, paper, 14 1/8 x 10 5/8 in. Private collection 
La fonte des cieux, 2020. Watercolour, paper, 14 1/8 x 10 5/8 in. Private collection 
La fonte des cieux, 2020. Watercolour, paper, 14 1/8 x 10 5/8 in. Private collection 
Crépuscule, 2020. Oil on canvas, 13 3/4 x 10 5/8 in. Private collection 
Un ciel volé, 2020. Oil on canvas, triptych, each 76 3/4 x 153 1/2 in. Collection Frac Auvergne 
Agonia, 2019. Oil on canvas, 98 3/8 x 78 3/4 in. Private collection 
Jucher pour la vie ou juste pour une nuit, 2019, Oil on canvas, 98 3/8 x 78 3/4 in. Private collection 
Délaissés des mémoires, 2019 oil on canvas 250 x 200 cm (98 3/8 x 78 3/4 in.). Private collection 
La Vengeance, 2018. Oil on canvas, 98 3/8 x 78 3/4 in. Private collection 
La Chute, 2018. Oil on canvas, 98 3/8 x 78 3/4 in. Private collection 
La nuit ne nous oublie pas, 2019. Oil on canvas, 10 5/8 x 8 5/8 in. 
Debout III, 2019. Oil on canvas, 10 5/8 x 8 5/8 in. 
Debout I, 2019. Oil on canvas, 10 5/8 x 8 5/8 in. 
Le chagrin des hérons, 2018. Oil on canvas, 13 3/4 x 10 5/8 in. 
Le sauveur II, 2018. Oil on canvas, 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. Private collection 
Le Sauveur I, 2018. Oil on canvas, 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. Private collection 
Fête de la mort, 2018. Triptych, 76 3/4 x 51 1/8 in. each, 76 3/4 x 153 1/2 in. Private collection 
Composition, 2018. Oil on canvas, 8 5/8 x 6 1/4 in. Private collection 
Silence, 2018. Oil on canvas, triptych, 76 3/4 x 51 1/8 in. each, 76 3/4 x 153 1/2 in.). Private collection
Biography
The young Syrian Miryam Haddad now living in Paris creates paintings that have the virtue of escaping photographic reproduction. Where the digital sensor fails, the eye alone can appreciate the rare swathes of the colour, the power of the impasto, the complexity of the juxtapositions, the rubbing of the brushes and the marks left by the palette knife. These are works that are not afraid of sensuous colours rich in pigment. Indeed they seek these out and play voluptuously on the cohabitation of absinth green, vermilion and ochre, but also the juxtapositions of deep purple and Indian orange.*
The war in Syria obliged the artist to leave her country earlier than she had planned in 2012. This experience surely intensifies the drama of canvases that are built up into incandescent extasies of pigment lent jewel-bright hardness by fragments of stained glass and ceramic. Her paintings retain a defiant beauty that suggest that humanity, even at its most devastated, will find a way to rise from the depths.
In 2019, the artist was the laureate of the Jean Francois Prat prize, had a solo show at the Collection Lambert in Avignon and was selected to create the poster for the 73rd Festival d’Avignon. Her work has recently featured in the following group exhibitions: J’aime, Je n’aime pas, Eigen + Art, Leipzig (2020); Group show, Shibuya Hikarie Cube gallery, Tokyo (2020); Prix Jean-François Prat, Fondation Bredin Prat, Paris (2019); Globe as a Palette, Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art (touring Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido, Hakodate Museum of Art, Sapporo Art Museum, Hokkaido, 2019); Jeunes artistes en Europe – Les métamorphoses, Fondation Cartier, Paris (2019). In 2021 a solo show will be dedicated to her work at the FRAC Auvergne, France.
*Alain Berland, Catalogue – Prix Jean-François Prat 2019, Éditions Jannick, Paris, May 2019