Nibras Barghouthi
Kobar, Palestine (1994).
Nibras Barghouthi is a Palestinian artist from Kobar, near Ramallah in the West Bank.
He studied Fine Arts at Dar al-Kalima College of Arts and Culture in Bethlehem, where he deepened his passion for painting and storytelling through visual expression.
About his work
His work is centered on faces imagined, and unseen. Each canvas becomes a mirror of the human spirit, reflecting fragment.
"Every time I stand before a blank canvas, faces begin to appear. They are not portraits of people I know, but fragments of memory, dream, and feeling that rise from within me. These faces belong to the unseen — to people who may never be remembered, voices that were never heard, and emotions that never found words.
I paint faces that I do not search for — they find me. When I begin a canvas, I do not plan a portrait; instead, I let the colors and strokes lead me. Slowly, a face appears, as if it had been waiting to be discovered. These faces are not just portraits, but fragments of stories, silent witnesses, and mirrors of emotions. Each painting is a meeting with the unseen.
The faces I paint are not bound by reality. They bend, stretch, and dissolve, existing somewhere between dream and memory. They are fragments of emotions, visions shaped by the subconscious, and whispers from the unseen" - Nibras Barghouthi.