In the Middle of the Middle: artists from the Middle East at Galerie Sfeir-Semler in Beirut
Galerie Sfeir-Semler invited french curator Catherine David to present the exhibition “In the Middle of the Middle” which opened November 19th, 2008 in their Beirut gallery.
Catherine David’s curatorial work has been widely recognized around the art world. She made headlines in the international art scene with her original approach when she was the artistic director of Documenta X in Kassel ( 1997). David is also one of the first curators to take an interest in the art of the Middle East and Arab world at large.
Catherine David has invited for the exhibition 12 artists coming from multi-national and cultural backgroundsin the Middle East. The artists use different media, ranging from painting, photography and video to installation, to portray and confront the realities of their environment. They are also refering to heterogenous formal paradigms acording to the different cultural and formal genealogies they went through. Participating artists are Jawad Al Malhi, Yasser Alwan, Ayman Baalbaki, Anna Boghiguian, Rami Farah, Joude Gorani, Wafa Hourani, Simon Kabboush, Waël Noureddine, Hani Rashed, Walid Sadek and Akram Zaatari.
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