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Online Art Guide

I chiefly aim to be resource for the public as I embark on making an online art guide (including artists, art events, artworks, history, and culture) in relation to my research and interests. Ultimately, art is about people and the stories we all share.

Thus, I hope that my publication can be that platform which enables more people to experience art as an aspect of life, not a distant thing disconnected from reality.

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Lebanon Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2022

This is a split-screen movie by Lebanese-French filmmaker and artist Danielle Arbid titled “Allô Chéri” (2022) on display in the Lebanon Pavilion of the 59th Venice Biennale.

Arbid’s film gives a firsthand, glimpse into the life of her mother living in the chaos and decay of modern day Beirut.

Wandering around the city and chasing money, the mother represents an anxious individual desperately seeking hope for life in the tragic situation facing Lebanon. Lebanon resembles her life.

The artist, who installed a recording device on her mother's cell phone (with consent), found out that her mother was running her own banking system. It highlights the results of Lebanon's financial collapse and that Lebanese people need access to money through other means instead of the official economic system.

The film is narrated by the voice of a woman. The woman says that she is chasing down money that she has lent while driving a car sinisterly around Beirut. Because she is talking to her daughter on the phone while also chasing down money, it implies that she is both a money lender and generous mother. It also implies that she is just a normal citizen of the city. With no conclusion, the piece is a continuous narrative.

The piece contrasts the woman's irritated tone of voice with a beautiful sunset in the background. It arouses emotions of mellowness and sadness.

Funded entirely by Lebanese art collectors and patrons, this is Lebanon’s second ever appearance at the Venice Biennale.

I was delighted to be presenting my research on the man-made landscape of the city at the Ouside In Online conference with UAL and OCAD on May in 2022. It was great opportunity to give a presentation internationally and share the diverse perspectives of the landscape around.
While I was attending a presentation of another participant, I was overwhelmed. It seemed when I looked at it, first of all, I was fascinated by that and then I started to go silent. And then, I started to look into her world where was like a far away from me. I contemplated that it was a mirror to her, which she didn't want to look into and confront. It was state of like despair, a state of loneliness from her. It has made me reflect on ideas for my practice which are imagined paradises as accompanying contradictions of sadness and discomfort.

Below the writing is about the theme of my presentation for the landscape:

My practice represents a form of landscape paintings and have narrative in everyday life as if it implies not special events: things dumped in garbage cans, slaughtered livestock, a highway that I witness humanity’s bare face, a zoo of taxidermy animals that are exquisitely stuffed to look as if they are real. I am going to ask whether the ideal exist in our minds but not in reality. The beauty we consider ideal and the reality in which we seek bring about contradictions that are inextricably bound by grief and displeasure. This presentation will discuss what is observed in everyday life and its uncomfortable reality; whether a reality is far from the idealised life which humanity tends to aim for, showing photographs of landscape captured disconcerting moments in everyday life.