Projects

Arabic calligraphy turns a phrase into an artwork by exploiting the expressive potential inherent in its forms.

In Darija, a north African dialect, a tkaf is a curse invoked by someone close to you.

From the series Merely a Mistake II, 2009—2013

Since 2010, Lebanon has entered a new phase. While tensions have erupted in the entire region, the country remains in a state of near stagnation.

Will new flowers blossom from the existing rotten system? Can we remain independent, capable of adding value? If not, then what shall we do?

Conversion is an installation that plays with this natural source of light by covering the courtyard with a metal structure made up of pivoting panels of coloured filters.

In a long corridor-like room at Bait Al Serkal, another Heritage Area building, seven doors opening onto the veranda have been replaced with coloured screens.

This painting is from the series Groundless, 2011―2012, in which buoys, ears and shoes float above a dark mauve or black background.

In a single take, the camera records a car racing across the Pan-American Highway in the southern Peruvian desert, the location of the Nazca Lines, ancient geoglyphs dating from 300 bc–900 ad.

As part of Zhang’s considerations on paint, the colour black has become an important presence in his work.

In the Arab world, where people are major consumers of technology but not involved in any aspect of its production, most individuals equate progress with the acquisition of modern equipment.

Throughout his career, Marwan Rechmaoui has focused on mapping urban spaces, but in these works he concentrates on Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.

De-miners 1 is part of the series Found Objects, which depicts different cluster munitions that were collected after the 2006 war on Lebanon, as well as the crews that gathered them.

'Domes appear as an element in architecture throughout the world.'
Zeinab Alhashemi

This installation includes a video that documents a collaborative performance by Matthew Barney and Elizabeth Peyton at DESTE Foundation Project Space on the island of Hydra, Greece, in 2009, as well as elements that were first exhibited there.