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Akram Zaatari

Akram Zaatari is an artist who lives and works in Beirut. He has been exploring Lebanon's postwar condition through collecting testimonies and various documents, notably on the mediation of territorial conflicts and wars through television, and the logic of Resistance in the context of the current geographical division of the Middle East.

Co-founder of the Arab Image Foundation (Beirut), he based his recent work on collecting, studying, and archiving a particular collection on the Middle East, notably studying the work of Lebanese photographer Hashem el Madani (1928-) as a register of social relationships and of photographic practices.

In addition to his work as an artist, Zaatari is also the curator of the Radical Closure box set, which includes his work In This House.

Grand winner of the 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil.

Represented in the Lebanese Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. 

 


Available Titles by Akram Zaatari

Title Year Runtime Collection
All is Well on the Border 1997 00:44:53 Single Titles
Beirut Exploded Views 2014 00:28:00 Single Titles
Countdown 1995 00:06:40 Single Titles
Future-Past-Present: A Journey Through the Twenty-Tens So Far 2017 02:31:07 Curated Compilations
Her + Him 2012 00:32:35 Single Titles
Her + Him VAN LEO 2001 00:32:00 Single Titles
How I Love You 2001 00:29:00 Single Titles
In This House 2005 00:30:00 Single Titles
The Landing 2019 01:03:00 Single Titles
Letter to a Refusing Pilot 2013 00:34:00 Single Titles
Majnounak (Crazy of You) 1997 00:26:00 Single Titles
Mourning Images 1995 00:06:10 Single Titles
Nature Morte 2008 00:11:49 Single Titles
On Photography Dispossession and Times of Struggle 2017 00:37:00 Single Titles
On Photography People and Modern Times 2010 00:38:00 Single Titles
Red Chewing Gum 2000 00:10:45 Single Titles
Reflection 1998 00:11:11 Single Titles
The Script 2018 00:06:30 Single Titles
Teach Me 1996 00:06:00 Single Titles
The End of Time 2013 00:14:00 Single Titles
This Day (al yaoum) 2003 01:26:00 Single Titles
Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright 2010 00:12:00 Single Titles
Twenty Eight Nights and A Poem 2015 01:44:44 On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Video in Five Movements 2008 00:08:45 Single Titles

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