Sea video work by Lara OgelBeirut Art Residency
Lara Ögel's artistic production employs aggregated personal imagery, objects and sounds in an effort to resample her visual experiences in an intimate exploration of self.
video installation in La VitrineBeirut Art Residency
Such as daily used and consumed objects and structures, images looked at, scenes not watched or paid attention to, and using multi media to re-create and re-stage them.
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Her fascination with Beirut's surroundings, led her to investigate the origin and use of the apartment curtains seen all over Beirut.
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She created a site-specific installation mirroring the outlines that traditional curtains draw throughout the city in this subtle patterned composition.
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Their function of creating and structuring private and public space, recalls the artists’ personal experience of encountering tangible and psychological boundaries while trying to understand the city.
The curtains then become a metaphor for the position of self within society, the city, and in relation to people and contexts.
fayrouz video projectionBeirut Art Residency
Ibi Ibrahim set out to explore the intimate relationship between the iconic singer Fayrouz and her listeners.
Producing a video installation that reflects her unifying strength which transcends political and religious frictions.
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A second installation brought together the tangible harshness cutting up the streets of Beirut, engaging in a vulnerable dialogue with the artists’ own emotional struggles.
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Evelyn Simons created a soundscape and a photographic series that reflect a socio-cultural dialogue with her immediate surroundings.
photography series of BeirutBeirut Art Residency
Her sound piece re-enacted the closed communities living side by side, making up segregated atmosphere that is Beirut.
Evelyn photographic seriesBeirut Art Residency
The series of photographs juxtaposed the sense of destruction permeating the city, with the beauty advertisements imposing a continuous correction of outward appearances.
