Akram Zaatari: Earth of Endless Secrets. Beirut, Sfeir-Semler Gallery and BAC, until October 2009
Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut presents “Earth of Endless Secrets”, a comprehensive solo exhibition by the Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari. The title refers to an ongoing project by Akram Zaatari that consists of unearthing, collecting and examining a wide range of documents that testify to the cultural and political conditions of Lebanon’s postwar society. Zaatari’s artistic practice involves the study and investigation of the way these documents straddle, conflate, or confuse notions of history and memory. By analyzing and re-contextualizing audiotapes, video footage, photographs, journals, personal collections, found objects, interviews and recollections, Zaatari explores the “dynamics that govern the state of image-making in situations of war”. With an almost archaeological eye, the artist reveals the intimate layers of history contained in records of everyday experience.
The exhibition, co-produced by Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Kunstverein München, and the Beirut Art Center, was exhibited at the Kunstverein München in March 2009.
The show is in two parts and will take place at the Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut until October 31, 2009 and at the Beirut Art Center until October 3, 2009.
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