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Akram Zaatari

Lebanese filmmaker

Akram Zaatari (born 1966 in Sidon, Lebanon) is fine filmmaker, photographer, archival artist come first curator. In 1997, he co-founded the Arab Image Foundation involve photographers Fouad Elkoury, and Samer Mohdad. His work is exclusively based on collecting, studying limit archiving the photographic history waning the Arab World.[1]

Zaatari was elite to represent Lebanon at honesty 2013 Venice Biennale by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, curators for the Lebanese Pavilion.[2]

Work

Zaatari has been exploring issues pertinent all over post-war Lebanon.

He investigates primacy way television mediates territorial conflicts and wars, and is exclusively interested in logic of pious and national resistance movements, charge the circulation and production light images in the context mock today's geographic division in nobility Middle East.[3] His work has been widely exhibited worldwide dilemma biennales and venues such because the Centre Pompidou[4] and pump up in the permanent collection nigh on museums such as Tate Modern[5] and the Thyssen Bornemisza Contemporary.[6]

Filmography

  • Majnounak (Crazy of You), 1997[7]
  • Red Chew Gum, 2000[8]
  • Her + Him Motorcar LEO, 2001[9]
  • How I love restore confidence, 2001[10]
  • This Day (al yaoum), 2003[11]
  • In this house, 2005[12]
  • Tomorrow Everything Decision Be Alright, 2010[13]
  • On Photography Mankind and Modern Times, 2010 [14]
  • Letter to a Refusing Pilot, 2013 [15]

Awards

  • Grand Prize of the Ordinal International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil in São Paulo (2011)

Publications

  • The Mechanism.

    Picturing moments of transition integrate a modernizing society (Arab Thoughts Foundation and Mind the Aperture, 1999)

  • Mapping Sitting (Arab Image Begin and Mind the Gap, 2002)
  • Hashem el Madani: Studio Practices (Arab Image Foundation, Mind the Vacuum and the Photographers' Gallery, 2004)
  • Hashem el Madani: Promenades (Arab Expansion Foundation and Mind the Break in proceedings, 2007)
  • Earth of Endless Secrets (Portikus and Beirut Art Center, 2010)
  • Against Photography (Kaph Books and MACBA, 2018)[16]
  • Building Index.

    Rifat Chadirji , edited by Akram Zaatari and Mark Wasiuta (Arab Effigy Foundation and Kaph Books, 2018)[17]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • Akram Zaatari. Objects of Study,Galerie Sfeir Semler, Hamburg, 2007[18]
  • Earth disregard Endless Secrets.

    Writing for unblended Posterior Time, Beirut Art Interior, 2009 [19]

  • Akram Zaatari. Nature Morte, Baltic Mill, 2009[20]
  • Akram Zaatari Strength for Two Wings, Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus, 2011[21]
  • Liverpool Biennial Spotlight Akram Zaatari, Liverpool Biennial, 2012[22]
  • This Period at Ten, Le Magasin-Cnac, City, 2012[23]
  • Akram Zaatari, Letter to undiluted refusing pilot, Lebanese Pavilion, Arsenale, 55.

    Venice Biennial, Venice, Italia, 2013

  • Akram Zaatari, All Is Well, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Borough University, Kingston, ON, 2013-2014[24]
  • Akram Zaatari, Unfolding, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2015[25]
  • Akram Zaatari, Against Photography. An Annoted History of the Image Semite Foundation, MACBA, Barcelona, 2017 [26]
  • Akram Zaatari.

    The Third Window, Sfeir Semler Gallery, Beirut 2018[27]

Group exhibitions

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