Cybelle Moutran
Cybelle Moutran is a Lebanese ceramic artist whose sculptural practice transforms clay into poetic explorations of memory, resilience, and human emotion. Through abstraction and storytelling, her works reflect deeply personal experiences while engaging with collective histories.
Biography
Cybelle Moutran (b. 1973) is a Beirut-based ceramic artist who transitioned from a career in luxury travel to ceramics in 2017. Her sculptural practice explores the emotional and narrative potential of clay, creating abstract forms that embody memory, transformation, and reflection. Following the Beirut Port explosion in 2020, she created On a Sidewalk, a permanent installation at Beit Beirut that honours the victims and the city, earning the Gallery Prize for Best First Solo Exhibitor. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the SIKKA Art & Design Festival, Fragmenta: The Revival of Lost Form, and We Design Beirut, continuing to establish her presence in the contemporary ceramics scene.
In the Spur
In the Spur explores courage as an instinct or a sudden surge that pushes us to act despite fear, danger, or uncertainty. It captures that instinctive pulse: the moment when strength overtakes hesitation, when the body and the mind remember how to stand tall.
Through five ceramic forms, the emotional topography of courage unfolds with its tremors, ruptures, and quiet recoveries. Clay, with its fragility and steadfastness, becomes both witness and vessel.
In a landscape marked by collective trauma and silence, In the Spur speaks to the courage of persistence –the will to move forward, rebuild, and remain visible. These works transform the fleeting impulse of bravery into form, gesture, and memory, thus holding space for the strength that rises from within.
In The Spur, Stoneware, Underglaze, Glaze, 40 x 25 x 25 cm approx
Fragments of Time
This porcelain mural installation explores themes of separation, longing, and reunion through a two-part narrative.
The first part draws inspiration from old-fashioned calendars, each rendered in a distinct style to capture shifting moods and states of mind. These calendars engage in a silent dialogue, reflecting on the experience of waiting and missing.
The second part brings reunion to life through movement, diverse textures, and text woven with memories and storytelling.
Together, these fragments of time shape the essence of life itself, transforming absence into connection.
Fragments of Time, Mural, Wall Installation View, Porcelain, 3 x 2.5 m
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