Noora Geagea is a Helsinki-based Finnish-Lebanese artist working in video, photography, and installation.
Over the years, she has worked with obstruction as method: repetitive action looped, photographing walls, painting over images of protests, spray-painting her childhood rhythmic gymnast body. She creates distance between viewer and subject, asking what we choose to see and what remains obscured.
She makes barriers visible by building them into the work itself. Paint over photograph, spray over memory, repetition until failure.
Geagea has exhibited at Hobusepea Gallery (Tallinn), Hippolyte Gallery & Forum Box (Helsinki), Riga Biennale 2023 (cancelled), Serlachius Museums Gösta (Mänttä Art Festival), Weserburg Museum of Modern Art (Bremen), the Miettinen Collection (Berlin), and the Aesthetica Art Prize (York Museums Trust).
Her works belong to public and private collections such as the Serlachius Museums Collection, the Finnish State Art Deposit Collection, the Miettinen Collection, and the KEVA Art Collection. She holds an MA in Fashion Photography (2009) from the London College of Fashion, UAL.
by Diana Luganski