Home Beirut. Sounding The Neighbors
15 Nov 2017 - 20 May 2018
Beirut, Lamia Joreige, Still from Beirut
1001 views, 2010
Video animation, black & white, silent. 16 minutes
1001 views, 2010
Video animation, black & white, silent. 16 minutes
HOME BEIRUT. SOUNDING THE NEIGHBORS
15 November 2017 – 20 May 2018
Curated by Hou Hanru and Giulia Ferracci
This project focusing on Beirut is the third chapter of the “Mediterranean Trilogy” through which the MAXXI has been examining the interaction between the artistic communities of Europe and the Middle East, that is prompting the birth of a new trans-Mediterranean culture, critically important for the global landscape of artistic creation.
Home Beirut. Sounding the Neighbors intends to put forward some of the most important trends of creative explorations of the contemporary reality intensively incarnated in the city’s development and destiny.
It will present some 30 artists, architects, filmmakers, musicians, dancers, researchers, activists with their diverse forms of expressions negotiating between critical reflections of recent history of conflicts, through archiving and re-enacting memories, and prospections of the future, through attempts of urban transformation and global outreaching, periodically interrupted by urgent problems and frustrations of the present.
It will be structured in several sections reflecting efforts to build homes in a highly complicated urban context to accommodate different intellectual claims and artistic imaginations as well as various political positions.
Ziad Abillama, Etel Adnan, Tamara AlSamerai, Mounira Al Solh, Haig Aivazian, Ziad Antar, Caline Aoun, Marwa Arsanios, Tarek Atoui, Vartan Avakian, Eric Baudelaire, Tony Chakar, Ali Cherri, Roy Dib, Fouad Elkoury, Sirine Fattouh, Laure Ghorayeb, Ahmad Ghossein, Mona Hatoum, Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige, Hatem Imam, Lamia Joreige, Mazen Kerbaj, Bernard Khoury, Walid Raad, Marwan Rachmaoui, Graziella Rizkallah Toufic, Stéphanie Saadé, Sharif Sehnaoui, Rania Stephan, Jalal Toufic, Paola Yacoub, Akram Zaatari.
15 November 2017 – 20 May 2018
Curated by Hou Hanru and Giulia Ferracci
This project focusing on Beirut is the third chapter of the “Mediterranean Trilogy” through which the MAXXI has been examining the interaction between the artistic communities of Europe and the Middle East, that is prompting the birth of a new trans-Mediterranean culture, critically important for the global landscape of artistic creation.
Home Beirut. Sounding the Neighbors intends to put forward some of the most important trends of creative explorations of the contemporary reality intensively incarnated in the city’s development and destiny.
It will present some 30 artists, architects, filmmakers, musicians, dancers, researchers, activists with their diverse forms of expressions negotiating between critical reflections of recent history of conflicts, through archiving and re-enacting memories, and prospections of the future, through attempts of urban transformation and global outreaching, periodically interrupted by urgent problems and frustrations of the present.
It will be structured in several sections reflecting efforts to build homes in a highly complicated urban context to accommodate different intellectual claims and artistic imaginations as well as various political positions.
Ziad Abillama, Etel Adnan, Tamara AlSamerai, Mounira Al Solh, Haig Aivazian, Ziad Antar, Caline Aoun, Marwa Arsanios, Tarek Atoui, Vartan Avakian, Eric Baudelaire, Tony Chakar, Ali Cherri, Roy Dib, Fouad Elkoury, Sirine Fattouh, Laure Ghorayeb, Ahmad Ghossein, Mona Hatoum, Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige, Hatem Imam, Lamia Joreige, Mazen Kerbaj, Bernard Khoury, Walid Raad, Marwan Rachmaoui, Graziella Rizkallah Toufic, Stéphanie Saadé, Sharif Sehnaoui, Rania Stephan, Jalal Toufic, Paola Yacoub, Akram Zaatari.