Ieva Saudargaite Douaihi is a Lithuanian-Lebanese artist based in Beirut. Her art practice includes images, sculptures, topographic gestures, prints, videos and instagram accounts and derives inspiration from geography, man-made environments and sociopolitical contexts. Drawing and modelling tools, architectural theory and methodology are key parameters structuring her work process and inform it from approach to finish. She is interested in producing pieces that respond to particular moments or conditions in a context. The works often play on the materialisation of hidden traces, histories, data and political/temporal/social boundaries.

Sad Sun

Faced with the challenge of producing a work for a street-activated-space during a time of political and social unrest, the artist opted to address the precarious climate through her own emotional landscape rather than prematurely engage with events that were still unfolding in the streets.

SAD SUN is a play on proportions as it mimics a portable light therapy lamp on a large scale. These therapy lamps are prescribed to alleviate symptoms of S.A.D. - Seasonal Affective Disorder - a type of depression that occurs each year during the dark winter months particularly in the Northern hemisphere. Although Lebanon boasts to have around 300 sunny days a year, the weeks around the end of 2019 and start of 2020 felt particularly dark and dim, an impression that was intensified by the artist’s own encounter with depression.