Projects

Jorge Tacla’s Escombros series (signifying 'rubble' or 'debris' in Spanish) depicts a bombed-out cityscape inspired from photographs of Beirut after the July 2006 Israeli War.

Josephine Meckseper evokes an apocalyptic retail environment within this installation

Cairo Stories… continues an on-going series of ‘as-told-to’ recorded stories, based on personal interviews.

It’s not my memory of it is a documentary based on interviews conducted in 2000 with people who manage intelligence information in the US government.

Not a matter of if but when was developed in 2005-2006 in Damascus, Syria.

Night Journey follows stories of pilgrimage and devotional practice and focuses on the symbols and instruments of communication or communion with and between the supernatural and mankind.

Borrowing elements from Palestinian folk belief and superstition, Quest for Spouse directs its attention to magic, healing, play and longing.

Kamran Shirdel is considered one of the pioneers of the social documentary.

Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon are prohibited from practicing more than seventy professions, except, fortunately, art.

The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni is an attempt to tell the story of Soad Hosni, one of Egypt’s most famous film stars who starred in eighty-two feature films between 1959 and 1991.

While many Western critics have emphasised the national, religious and ethnic origins of Khalil Rabah’s preoccupation with boundaries and containment, his work engages with more conceptual and universal questions relating to the shifting borders of narrative, history and space.

The encyclopaedia is a monumental work of instruction, aiming to treat everything that can be learned by a person in his or her lifetime.

For The Trespassers, Mariam Ghani hired Afghan-Americans who had previously worked as translators for the US military in Afghanistan, translating documents related to US military prisons in Afghanistan.

'The subjects all chose their own elements to represent and identify them in the form of a tattoo superimposed on their portraits.' Marie Hélène Cauvin