Join us for the signing of Writing in the Work of Huguette Caland by Brigitte Caland on Wednesday, 26 November, 2025 at 6:00 PM, in the Museum's auditorium (B2).

The book signing will be preceded by a conversation between the author and Nayla Tamraz, art critic and writer.

About the Book

Writing in the work of Huguette Caland explores the role of writing in the artistic practice of Huguette Caland (1931–2019). Through sketches, visual documentation and an essay by Brigitte Caland, a scholar and the daughter of the artist, this publication traces the Lebanese artist’s unique fusion of image and text. It also helps understand the role of writing in Huguette’s works, how by concealing parts she creates, consciously or unconsciously, a playful relationship with the viewer and how her handwritten fragments and invented symbols become a language of their own shifting at moments to abstraction.

From Beirut to Paris to Los Angeles, the book unveils how visual art and writing combined serve multiple purposes during a fully lived life.

Brigitte Caland's Biography

With a master in Art Criticism and Curatorial Studies and a PhD in Literature and Civilizations, Caland has taught at the Arabic and Near Eastern languages department at the American University of Beirut as well as the University Saint Joseph, Beirut. She is a trained chef interested in food history, who published her first book, Promenades culinaires (Les trois colonnes, 2020) on the evolution of culinary traditions in the Near-East; another book Nourritures affectives (Twig, 2025) will be published before the end of 2025. Since 2005 she has managed the estate of her mother Huguette Caland and co-curated several exhibitions of her work.