¿Quién salió con Etel Adnan?

Etel Adnan (Beirut, 24 de febrero de 1925-París, 14 de noviembre de 2021)​​ fue una artista visual, pintora, poeta, escritora, autora y dibujante franco-libanesa nacionalizada estadounidense. Escribió en francés, en inglés y en árabe.

En 2003, la revista de la Sociedad para el estudio de la literatura multiétnica de los Estados Unidos, dijo de Adnan « innegablemente es la escritora árabe-estadounidense más célebre y consumada de la actualidad. »

Según la poeta, «como todo escritor serio, su público no puede ser reducido a sus pares árabes o a un público árabe-estadounidense. Los libros tienen su propia vida y nadie puede asegurar su destino. La única cosa que podemos constatar es la existencia de un corpus creciente de una literatura árabe-estadounidense y el esfuerzo de la gente que intenta conocerla y hacerla conocer.»

Simone Fattal (Arabic: سيمون فتال; born 1942) is a Syrian-American artist.

She was born in Damascus, Syria and was later educated in Beirut and Paris, studying philosophy at the École des Lettres and the Sorbonne, as well as archaeology at the École du Louvre. She returned to Beirut in 1969, where she began a career as a painter. She began working in clay at The Art Institute of California, later working in Grasse with ceramic artist Hans Spinner.

She lived with poet and artist Etel Adnan, until Adnan's death in November 2021. The couple left Lebanon for Sausalito, California in 1980. There, Fattal established a publishing house Post-Apollo Press. She returned to the visual arts in 1988, producing sculpture, watercolors, paintings and collage. The couple later moved to Paris.

In 2017, she was nominated for an AWARE prize for women artists.

In 2019, a retrospective of her work Works and Days was presented at the Museum of Modern Art's MoMA PS1. Her work has also been exhibited at the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakesh, at the Rochechouart Museum of Contemporary Art and at the Sharjah Art Foundation.

In April 2021, Fattal assisted an exhibition with Serhan Ada at the Pera Museum in Istanbul of Etel Adnan's work.

Finding a Way, commissioned by the Whitechapel Gallery, was on view in London between 21 Sep 2021 – 15 May 2022.