Groundwork Exhibition at Beirut Art Center

The Beirut Art Center is hosting a solo exhibition of seminal works by the Iraqi-born artist Jananne Al-Ani called “Groundwork”.

In 2009 Al-Ani presented the video installation “A Loving Man” (1996-9) in Closer, Beirut Art Center’s opening show. Four years later the artist is back for her first solo exhibition in Lebanon. In this survey exhibition Al-Ani focuses on landscape, seeking to expose and also challenge the orientalist fantasy of the Middle-East as an unoccupied place with no history. Other works that will be exhibited address the prominent role of aerial reconnaissance in twentieth-century warfare while exploring the relationship between the technologies of photography and film and contemporary conflict.