Noora Geagea thinks through movements. She is a Helsinki-based Finnish-Lebanese artist working with photography, video and installation. She aims to reframe everyday gestures as carefully choreographed actions of persistence. Geagea finds humour in failure, and failure in humour. As power balances shift in societies, she uses these observed dynamics as material to make work and belong. Geagea's work speaks directly through an almost childlike filter, inviting immediate understanding. But soon, the viewer realises there are multiple entry points, doors that shift and contradict one another.
Her background moves from competitive rhythmic gymnastics to working as a camera assistant on feature films. Geagea has exhibited at 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