NAFAS BEIRUT

Espace SD and xanadu* present Nafas Beirut, a multimedia venue for artists bearing witness. The aim is to create a platform for artists, poets, writers and filmmakers to share their work produced during or in reaction to the Israeli siege of Lebanon of Summer 2006. Believing it crucial to highlight these works, Nafas Beirut documents the emotions and experiences, and brings artists and viewers together, historicizing the moment. Nafas Beirut is a platform for these immediate responses through a multimedia exhibition and a month long series of events including, video screenings curated by various organizations and collectives, concerts, an open mike poetry jam, and a lecture on the oil spill.

The multimedia exhibit includes more than 40 artists of different backgrounds, hailing from around the world. These works are reactionary; they were made out of an urge. To highlight a few, they are raw as seen in the 12-poem piece of Wissam Nouchi entitled "Remember to Forget Beirut". They are emotional as Sintia Karam, trapped outside of Lebanon wanders around Berlin hoping that somehow her footsteps would take her straight back to Beirut. All the way from Australia, Maissa Alameddine and Fadia Kisrwani Abboud, create an installation entitled "Return to Sender," in reaction to the millions of Israeli flyers that were dropped on Lebanon. Lina Hakim creates an installation in homage to her real heroes of the war: the teenagers she met while volunteering at a shelter. Zena el-Khalil paints a portrait of Hassan Nassrallah as seen through her eyes. Raed Yassin displays his daily adventures with Nabil Fawzi, a.k.a. Superman. Maria Kassab's delicate drawings portray her downward spiral into darkness and depression. And already, some find themselves moving on as Rowina Bou Harb reveals in her blank white canvas entitled, "Don't Feel Like Talking Anymore, I Almost Forgot What I Felt."

with: Ziad Abillama, Maissa Alameddine & Fadia Kisrwani Abboud, Mireille Astore, Ritta Baddoura, Gregory Buchakjian , Rowina Bou Harb, Antoine Boulad, Hala Dabaji, Nayla Dabaji, Choghig der-Ghougassian, Maher Diab, Ghassan Ghazal, Charbel Haber, Lina Hakim, Caroline Hatem, Hussam Hawwa, Marie Nour Hechaime, Joanne Issa, Abdallah Kahil, Sintia Karam, Maria Kassab, Christophe Katrib, Mazen Kerbaj, Joe Kesrouani, Roy Kesrouani, Zena el-Khalil, Ruth Mac Dougall, Joumana Mattar, Soha Menassa , Lena Merhej, Randa Mirza, Greta Naufal, Wissem Noshi, Yasmina   Alexandra Nysten, Chantal Partamian, Amanda Riffo, Mari jo Raidy , Ghalya Saadawi, Elyse Tabet , Rachel Tabet, Oraib Toukan, Charbel Torbey, Jana Traboulsi , Raed Yassin, Shawki Youssef

For more information about the artists, please check: www.xanaduart.com/nafas.html

 

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