Home Works exhibition

Bringing the cultural Middle East together

21 Apr 2010
2 May 2010
  • 1:00 -0:59
  • Ashkal Alwan
  • Ain Mreisseh Phoenicia St. , Beirut

Organized every year and a half by Ashkal Alwan; the Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, the Home Works exhibitions bring together artists, writers and intellectuals from the region, such as Akram Zaatari, Walid Raad, Jalal Toufic, Bita Fayyazi and Emily Jacir. Topics such as dislocation and global society are explored in discussions, performances and exhibitions.

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Give Me A Body Then, Ali Cherri, 2005. - Ali Cherri's work was on view at Home Works III .

With Home Works, Ashkal Alwan invests in forging cultural connections between established and emerging artists residing in Lebanon and overseas. As a title, the term ‘Home Works’ suggests an intertwining of public and private spheres, the outside world of work and the inside space of home. In referring to the exercises, lessons and research problems worked out by students repetitively and in solitude, ‘Home Works’ implies a process of internal excavation, digging and burrowing deeper all the while constructing and accumulating new practices.

Source: Eflux.