Olivéa – Hommage à la Déesse de l’Olivier is a “poem-in-paint”, tribute to Lebanon’s olive trees in the form of an ensemble of sixteen tondos (circular paintings). The number of paintings is equivalent to the number of 6000-year-old olive trees in Bchaaleh, in North Lebanon. 
 
Adnan’s paintings are more dreamlike evocations than precise portrayals of olive trees. They are coherent with the artist’s love and fascination for nature: “I talk a lot to nature. I adore it. I talk to trees. I feel their lives. They are here as much as I (…). Trees are alive. They have atoms that move and these are the same atoms that are present within us.” Thus, Adnan acknowledges a particular affection for the olive tree: “If we want to save our planet, Earth, we should begin with this beneficial tree that has a magic beauty. This is why I chose to dedicate to it a series of round canvases named Homage to the Goddess Olivea.” 
 
Olivéa – Hommage à la Déesse de l’Olivier was the core of A Roof for Silence, the National Pavilion of Lebanon at the 17th Biennale of Architecture in Venice curated by Hala Wardé in 2021. The tondos were accompanied by daylight photographs by Fouad Elkoury and night filming by Alain Fleischer of the same trees.