Akram Zaatari

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Lebanese filmmaker (born 1966)

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::summary Lebanese filmmaker (born 1966) ::

Akram Zaatari (born 1966) is a Lebanese filmmaker, photographer, archival artist and curator. In 1997, he co-founded the Arab Image Foundation with photographers Fouad Elkoury, and Samer Mohdad. His work is largely based on collecting, studying and archiving the photographic history of the Arab World.

Zaatari was selected to represent Lebanon at the 2013 Venice Biennale by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, curators for the Lebanese Pavilion.

Early life

Zaatari was born in Sidon, Lebanon year: 1966.

Work

He has been exploring issues pertinent to post-war Lebanon. He investigates the way television mediates territorial conflicts and wars, and is particularly interested in logic of religious and national resistance movements, and the circulation and production of images in the context of today's geographic division in the Middle East. His work has been widely exhibited worldwide in biennales and venues such as the Centre Pompidou and is in the permanent collection of museums such as Tate Modern and the Thyssen Bornemisza Contemporary.

Filmography

  • Majnounak (Crazy of You), 1997
  • Red Chewing Gum, 2000
  • Her + Him VAN LEO, 2001
  • How I love you, 2001
  • This Day (al yaoum), 2003
  • In this house, 2005
  • Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright, 2010
  • On Photography People and Modern Times, 2010
  • Letter to a Refusing Pilot, 2013

Awards

  • Grand Prize of the 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil in São Paulo (2011)

Publications

  • The Vehicle. Picturing moments of transition in a modernizing society (Arab Image Foundation and Mind the Gap, 1999)
  • Mapping Sitting (Arab Image Foundation and Mind the Gap, 2002)
  • Hashem el Madani: Studio Practices (Arab Image Foundation, Mind the Gap and the Photographers' Gallery, 2004)
  • Hashem el Madani: Promenades (Arab Image Foundation and Mind the Gap, 2007)
  • Earth of Endless Secrets (Portikus and Beirut Art Center, 2010)
  • Against Photography (Kaph Books and MACBA, 2018)
    • Building Index. Rifat Chadirji *, edited by Akram Zaatari and Mark Wasiuta (Arab Image Foundation and Kaph Books, 2018)

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • Akram Zaatari. Objects of Study, Galerie Sfeir Semler, Hamburg, 2007
  • Earth of Endless Secrets. Writing for a Posterior Time, Beirut Art Center, 2009
  • Akram Zaatari. Nature Morte, Baltic Mill, 2009
  • Akram Zaatari Composition for Two Wings, Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus, 2011
  • Liverpool Biennial Spotlight Akram Zaatari, Liverpool Biennial, 2012
  • This Day at Ten, Le Magasin-Cnac, Grenoble, 2012
  • Akram Zaatari, Letter to a refusing pilot, Lebanese Pavilion, Arsenale, 55. Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy, 2013
  • Akram Zaatari, All Is Well, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queens University, Kingston, ON, 2013–2014
  • Akram Zaatari, Unfolding, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2015
  • Akram Zaatari, Against Photography. An Annoted History of the Image Arab Foundation, MACBA, Barcelona, 2017
  • Akram Zaatari. The Third Window, Sfeir Semler Gallery, Beirut 2018

Group exhibitions

  • Documenta (13), Kassel, 2012
  • Across Boundaries. Focus on Lebanese Photography, curated by Tarek Nahas, Beirut Art Fair 2018
  • In 2023, Akram Zaatari participated in BIENALSUR (Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo del Sur), presenting work in the exhibition Modos de desvanecimiento at the Sursock Museum in Beirut, Lebanon.

References

References

  1. "Galerie Sfeir Semler". Galerie Sfeir Semler.
  2. (20 October 2012). "Akram Zaatari represents Lebanon at Venice.". Biennial Foundation.
  3. "Le Journal des Laboratoires: Akram Zaatari". Les Laboratoires.
  4. (2007). "Centre Pompidou – Akram Zaatari". Centre Pompidou.
  5. "tate Collection – Akram Zaatari". Tate Modern.
  6. "Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary". Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary.
  7. "Majnounak (Crazy of You) Akram Zaatari". Video Data Bank.
  8. "Red Chewing Gum Akram Zaatari". Video Data Bank.
  9. "Her + Him VAN LEO Akram Zaatari". Video Data Bank.
  10. "How I love you Akram Zaatari". Video Data Bank.
  11. "This Day (al yaoum) Akram Zaatari". Video Data Bank.
  12. "In this house Akram Zaatari". Video Data Bank.
  13. Tamar Zmora. "Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright Akram Zaatari". ArtAsiaPacific.
  14. (2013). "Akram Zaatari: On Photography People and Modern Times". Thomas Dane Gallery.
  15. (2013). "Akram Zaatari Letter to a Refusing Pilot". e-flux.
  16. (2018). "Against Photography". Kaph Books.
  17. (2018). "Building Index". Les presses du réel.
  18. "Akram Zaatari". artnews.org.
  19. (2009). "Earth of Endless Secrets. Writing for a Posterior Time". Beirut Art Center.
  20. "Akram Zaatari < detail < exhibitions < What's on < Baltic". Baltic Mill.
  21. "Agnes Etherington Art Centre www.aeac.ca".
  22. "Exhibitions arkiv".
  23. "Exhibition - Akram Zaatari | MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona".
  24. (2018). "The Third Window". Artforum.
  25. (2018). "Across Boundaries. Focus on Lebanese Photography". Rania Matar website.
  26. (2023). "Modos de desvanecimiento".

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