Seminars & Lectures

Roundtable talk: Migrant artists

Friday, Jul 6, 2012
7:00pm -> 8:00pm
The Beirut Art Fair 2012

Seaside Arena

Moderator:
Véronique Rieffel, writer and director of the Institut des Cultures de L’Islam in Paris.

Speakers:
Zoulikha Bouabdellah – French-Algerian artist who uses videos and photographs to question our dominant political, social, moral, religious and even formal representations.

Marwan Kassab-Bachi – Syrian painter born in Damascus in 1934.

Emmanuel Guiragossian – Lebanese-German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, publisher and musician of Armenian descent.

Simeen Farhat – Pakistani sculptor, academic and writer known for producing multi-media works meant to challenge popular Western perceptions.