Art
Amel Karboul’s visual practice explores the emotional terrains of resilience, dissent, lineage, and relation. Rooted in movement and shaped by an embodied understanding of rhythm, her paintings emerge through gesture, layered surfaces, and intuitive mark-making.
Her works do not describe a subject;
they reveal an inner state,
a memory in motion,
a truth coming to the surface.
they reveal an inner state,
a memory in motion,
a truth coming to the surface.
Painting, for Amel, is a form of sensing - a way of listening to what the body remembers and allowing it to take shape in colour, line, and breath.
While the studio practice is grounded in painting, Amel also works across installation, spatial proposals, and site-responsive public art, extending her interest in movement and emotional mapping into sculptural form. These works explore how light, shadow, material, and environment shape perception and memory.
Below are the current bodies of work and projects in the practice.
New series and installations appear here as the work evolves.
New series and installations appear here as the work evolves.
Gesture (After Silence)
Resting Dissent
2425: Fragments of Resilience
An exploration of grief, survival, and what persists despite erasure.
Body of Dissent
The body as archive of rebellion - form as resistance, presence as truth.
Bodies of Relation
Portraiture as energy, encounter, and the shifting architectures of self.
➤ Enter Bodies of Relation
Tide and Trace (Shortlisted Project)
A site-responsive installation proposal for Cody Dock, exploring trace, memory, tidal movement, and the layered histories of the River Lea.
A contemplative structure shaped by light, shadow, and abstract mapping.
A contemplative structure shaped by light, shadow, and abstract mapping.
Surrender (Installation/Poetic Environment)
A multisensory installation shaped by poetry, light, and narrative thresholds - an inquiry into surrender as a contemporary gesture of release, trust, and transformation.
For studio inquiries, commissions and collaborations.