O Syria. What Do You Believe? - Paola Yacoub
2014-01-30
- Dates
- 2014-01-30 — 2014-01-30
- Lieu
- Catégorie
- Cinema
_ Jeudi 30.01.2014
_ Rencontre
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_ Paola Yacoub (born 1966, in Beirut; studied at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts, Beirut, and graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London in 1993) is an artist who worked at the Institut Français d’archéologie du Proche-Orient in charge of the excavation in downtown Beirut from 1995 to 1999. She conducted her first artistic experiments on our relations to automatas in architecture and photography. In collaboration with Michel Lasserre she noted the aspect variations of Lebanese territories in war and post war situations. Her investigations have been extended to a « system of action ». Yacoub's monographic exhibitions include Paola Yacoub, Drawing with the things themselves Beirut Art Center (2011), and Paola Yacoub, kiss the black stones Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2012). Her photo-essays were anthologized in Beirut is a Magnificent City: Synoptic Tables (2003) published by the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona in 2003 at the occasion of Contemporary Arab Representations, curated by Catherine David in 2002 at Witte de With, Rotterdam and Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona. She is currently the director of ARP program in Artistic Research Practices of the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts.