stairs and Bust worksBeirut Art Residency
Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir is an Icelandic artist whose work is heavily influenced by her background in visual anthropology.
stairs and bustBeirut Art Residency
The eye is an unreliable source. Our perception is shaped by language and the structures that frame our realities; social, economic, political, temporal, spatial, material.
Ragnheidur SunsetBeirut Art Residency
She was inspired in Beirut, a place so loaded with History, and her research focused on materials, signs and symbols that represent the origins of our culture.
Gestsdottir BaseBeirut Art Residency
In her project she played with the idea of the "unwritten" by cutting a hole in the shape of a column into an already existing marble table top.
Base InstallationBeirut Art Residency
The hole represents what is left out,
the powerless, the unseen.
Untitled by Rehan MiskciBeirut Art Residency
Rehan Miskci presented 'Foto Yeraz', an extension of her quest for new meanings in the tradition of studio photography and its connection to her Armenian identity.
Foto Yeraz SignBeirut Art Residency
'Foto Yeraz' is a fictitious and vacant photo studio where figures are absent, but spacial elements, such as large scale backdrops and props, still continue to exist.
Studio Sunset in Foto YerazBeirut Art Residency
In fact, they convert from serving as objects and start acting as subjects instead.
suspended installationBeirut Art Residency
Nic Courdy uses the public domain and digital media to explore ideas of compilation aesthetics and silent collaboration.
UntitledBeirut Art Residency
Nic presents his audience with highly imaginative works that create a hybrid of past and present art forms.
UntitledBeirut Art Residency
In doing so, he produces a new contemporary decorative narrative that echoes the current social constructions within the digital landscape.
