Exhibited in “Exposure 2012”, a collective exhibition held each year to promote emerging artists, at Beirut Art Center. Spectrum is a project that attempts to evoke the memory of the house where Chafa Ghaddar grew up and deeply cherish. Faced with a severe fire back in 1985, as well as unremitting erosion, mold and humidity, her home bore witness to ongoing, massive degradation. Although the house is still inhabited, its element of stability and its reality to me seems to be fleeting. Taking photographic images used to enact Ghaddar's resistance, an attempt to capture what she was missing in order to keep a trace of what is being defaced. The artist conjured these traces as a body, a standstill originating from the state of degradation. Ghaddar wanted to reveal the surviving marks of her home, to embolden the substance and praise it.

To serve this purpose she chose to work with the buon fresco technique by applying natural pigments on a wet mortar surface. The air then fixes the pigments, dries the surface, and creates stability. Mineral charcoal and ashes evoke the memory of the fire, black and red iron powders echo the image of erosion, and the mixture of water with air produces the smell of mold.

Spectrum is a part of a larger quest to regenerate the reality of Ghaddar's childhood home.