Ombres Pixélisées: Mémoire et Métamorphose is a body of work that transforms shadow into structure, and memory into material form.

Each piece begins with earth, soil collected from Darbechtar, Lebanon, the village where Joseph Chalouhi was born. Combined with ink, gold powder, and layered mixed media, the compositions capture the shadows of personal and collective history, reconstituting them as pixelated fields that oscillate between analog texture and digital logic.

The pixel, here, is not a screen artifact. It is a unit of memory, a fragment of something once whole, now recomposed into a new visual order. The works explore what remains when landscapes are displaced, when heritage is fractured, and when identity must be rebuilt from residue.

Rooted in the specific geography of North Lebanon yet speaking to universal questions of belonging and transformation, the project has been exhibited in Darbechtar (solo, 2024), Tripoli, Ehden, and Clermont-Ferrand. It has been covered by press outlets across Lebanon, middle east and asia.