Competition, 2025, Installation shot, Digital C-print with Spray paint on window, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn
Noora Geagea thinks through movements. She is a Helsinki-based Finnish-Lebanese artist working with photography, video and installation. She aims to reframe her personal archive as a gymnast, gestures such as laughter, social stereotypes and structures of power and exclusion as carefully choreographed actions of persistence. Her ideas emerge from a combination of mystery, embodied knowledge and debates with people around her. Geagea finds humour in failure, and failure in humour. Her work appears direct, inviting immediate understanding, but reveals multiple entry points and shifting angles that contradict one another.
Her background moves from competitive rhythmic gymnastics to working as a camera assistant on feature films. Geagea has exhibited at Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art (Vaasa), Hobusepea Gallery (Tallinn), Sammlung Philara (Düsseldorf), Hippolyte Gallery & Forum Box (Helsinki), Serlachius Museums Gösta (Mänttä Art Festival), Weserburg Museum of Modern Art (Bremen), the Miettinen Collection (Berlin), and the Aesthetica Art Prize (York Museums Trust). Publications include the Riga Biennale 2023 catalogue. Her works belong to public and private collections including 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