Bénédicte de Vanssay Moubarak is a Franco-Lebanese artist, designer and social entrepreneur now working in watercolor and mixed media.

Her current practice is a continuation of Beyt, the award-winning social enterprise she co-founded in 2005 with Raja Moubarak. After nearly two decades of transforming abandoned materials into meaningful home decor, the project closed its operations in 2023.

Today, she extends that same vision through painting. Working from photographs taken during urban explorations in Lebanon, her work focuses on abandoned houses and forgotten places. These paintings carry forward Beyt’s original commitment: to reveal the beauty in the broken and the abandoned, and to preserve the traces of memory embedded in spaces shaped by time, loss, and courage.