Tag: Lebanon
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Lina Ghotmeh – interview: ‘Sometimes I wonder whether I am constructing something new or revealing what was already there’
The Lebanese-born, Paris-based architect discusses her methodology of architecture as the ‘archaeology of the future’, and the origins and evolution of her award-winning Stone Garden apartment block in Beirut
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Ania Dabrowska: ‘By the retelling of archival stories we have the power to articulate new ideas of how we want to formulate our own identities’
Ania Dabrowska (b1973) is a Polish-born artist now living in London. She works with photography, moving image, installation, text and sound, and has a particular interest in the political and creative potency of archives within contemporary culture. She has had…
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Akram Zaatari: Against Photography – An Annotated History of the Arab Image Foundation
Searching for alternative historical and cultural narratives, Zaatari reveals the contents of the Arab Image Foundation through documentary film, photography and art, bringing new readings to the collection
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Elger Esser: ‘Beauty is not important; it’s a logical result in my opinion’
After his recent solo exhibition at Parasol Unit in London, Elger Esser talks about the relationship between Lebanon and Syria, having more in common with JMW Turner than Caspar David Friedrich, and how we are programmed to view landscapes as…
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Maeve Brennan: The Drift
Premiering at the Chisenhale Gallery, Maeve Brennan’s film The Drift (2017) depicts restorative labour as the means to reconstruct Lebanon’s war-torn past and build a new future
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Lamia Joreige: ‘Anything you film in a certain reality at a certain moment is a diagnosis of a present’
The artist, one of six finalists included in the Artes Mundi 7 exhibition, talks about her project Objects of War, a collective history of the Lebanese civil war, and her newer “poetic essays” exploring neighbourhoods in Beirut through film, photography,…
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I Must First Apologise …
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige Villa Arson, Nice 6 July – 13 October 2014
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Out of Beirut
Modern Art Oxford 13 May-16 July 2006
