Akram Zaatari
13 Oct 2012 - 06 Jan 2013
AKRAM ZAATARI
This Day at Ten
13 October 2012 - 6 January 2013
Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari's solo show at MAGASIN-CNAC will take as a starting point the feature film This Day (Al Yaoum/Aujourd'hui), produced between 2000 and 2003 and awarded at FID Marseille in 2004. With it a selection of artpieces (videos, photos) created during these last ten years will be presented.
Co-founder of the Arab Image Foundation, Akram Zaatari works at the disclosure of the photographic heritage of the Middle East through a thorough process of collecting and archiving. His artistic work is based on the notion of archive and stems from the study of the personal and collective memory to examine the present, the treatment of conflicts by television and the logics of national resistance movements in a context of geographical and mental division in the Middle East.
Akram Zaatari will place the feature film This Day in the center of his exhibition at MAGASIN, as if transforming the exhibition's space into a theatre space.
Born in 1966 in Saïda in the South of Lebanon, Akram Zaatari works and lives in Beyrouth.
This Day at Ten
13 October 2012 - 6 January 2013
Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari's solo show at MAGASIN-CNAC will take as a starting point the feature film This Day (Al Yaoum/Aujourd'hui), produced between 2000 and 2003 and awarded at FID Marseille in 2004. With it a selection of artpieces (videos, photos) created during these last ten years will be presented.
Co-founder of the Arab Image Foundation, Akram Zaatari works at the disclosure of the photographic heritage of the Middle East through a thorough process of collecting and archiving. His artistic work is based on the notion of archive and stems from the study of the personal and collective memory to examine the present, the treatment of conflicts by television and the logics of national resistance movements in a context of geographical and mental division in the Middle East.
Akram Zaatari will place the feature film This Day in the center of his exhibition at MAGASIN, as if transforming the exhibition's space into a theatre space.
Born in 1966 in Saïda in the South of Lebanon, Akram Zaatari works and lives in Beyrouth.