Glamouria - El Titan in the Laboratory of Grace By Hayat Ammouri

El Titan in the Laboratory of Grace: Lana Khayat’s First Solo Exhibition  

Artist Lana Khayat kicks off 2026 with a solo exhibition in Spain at Shiras Galería-  El Titan in the Laboratory of Grace. Lana invites us to rethink the notions of fragility, repair, and strength from a human perspective. She draws from the figure of the lily—traditionally associated with purity and delicacy—as an embodiment of the female experience, a central concept in her practice. The flower becomes a living body, an organism crossed by tensions, wounds, and reconstructions. Her work investigates the structural integrity of lived experience, honoring the conscious and capable decision to rebuild what has been fractured, making it visible, dignifying it, and elevating the act of repair as a vital part of form. In this sense, the titan does not refer to invulnerable strength, but rather to a power constructed through persistence. 

In this exhibition, Lana uses thread and stitching alongside painting as a symbol of endurance. In the artist’s words, “this is not a passive healing, but an active and intentional reclamation. Each stitch is an architectural decision that transforms a potential point of vulnerability into a reinforced point of strength.” For Khayat, thread is the intermediate space where fragility ends and agency begins. Stitching does not function as a corrective gesture, but as an affirmation of resistance and a will to continue. 

Through this exhibition, the artist proposes a reflection on how identity is constructed at the threshold of disintegration, and how processes of rupture can become sites of transformation. In contrast to the demand for perfection and the concealment of cracks, Khayat’s work asserts the beauty of repair and the dignity of those who consciously choose to recompose themselves. El Titan in the Laboratory of Grace ultimately stands as a celebration of resilience: an affirmation that what has been mended with intention and care can become more meaningful. 

El Titan in the Laboratory of Grace is opening on Friday, January 16 at 7:00 pm.  and will be held at the gallery’s Main Hall until March 12th, 2026. 

Lana Khayat (Lebanon, 1983) is an internationally exhibited artist with a deep artistic heritage. Her great-grandfather, Mohamad Suleiman Khayat, was dedicated to the restoration of Syrian Ajami rooms, works that are now held in prestigious museums such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Shangri La in Hawaii. This legacy shaped her creative foundation. After earning a degree in Design from the American University of Beirut and completing a Master of Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Khayat has developed an international exhibition career with presentations in New York (Pratt Manhattan Gallery and SVA Chelsea Gallery), Abu Dhabi (Warehouse421), London (Saatchi Gallery and Cromwell Place), Venice (Venice International Art Fair), and Riyadh (Hafez Gallery, and soon the Diriyah Biennale). Her works are held in significant private collections, and her collaborations with institutions such as the Guggenheim Museum highlight her growing recognition within the international art world.