Walid Sadek
Walid Sadek (born in Beirut, Lebanon, 1966) is a Lebanese artist and writer. He is a professor at the Department of Fine Arts and Art History of the American University of Beirut, and held its chairmanship from 2017 to date.
Life and work
[edit | edit source]Walid Sadek uses poetic and metaphoric language to evoke on post war Lebanon.[1] In 1999, he produced Bigger than Picasso a tiny and unexpected book using word and image to criticize a political situation in the country.[2]
Sadek, who has regularly collaborated with Beirut-based artist centre Ashkal Alwan, has participated in numerous exhibitions and events worldwide. In 2010, he presented his first solo exhibition at the Beirut Art Center.[3] He was guest editor of the academic journal Third Text on issue 117, July 2012, titled "Not, Not Arab".[4]
Publications
[edit | edit source]- Fi annani akbar min Picasso (bigger than Picasso), (Beirut, Ayloul Festival, 1999)
- Al-Kasal [Indolence] with Bilal Khbeiz (Beirut: The 3rd World, 1999)
- The Ruin to Come, Essays from a protracted war (Motto Books, Taipei Biennale, 2016)[5]
Collected essays, written in Beirut over a period of 10 years between 2006 and 2016, look at the conditions of living under a temporality theorized as the "protracted now" of a civil war, one structurally capable of perpetuating the conditions of its own dominance.
Selected exhibitions
[edit | edit source]Solo exhibitions
[edit | edit source]- Place at Last Walid Sadek, Beirut Art Center, 2010[6]
- Walid Sadek '"On the labour of missing", Galerie Tanit, Beirut, 2012[7]
Group exhibitions
[edit | edit source]- Ashkal Alwan – Hamra Street Project, Beirut, 2000[8]
- Contemporary Arab Representations, Beirut/Lebanon, Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2002 [9]
- Home Works III – A Forum of Cultural Practices, Beirut, 2005[10]
- Out of Beirut, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, 2006[11]
- Foreword, Pavilion of Lebanon, 52nd Venice Biennale, 2007[12]
- Home Works IV, Galerie Sfeir Semler, Beirut, 2008[13]
- Lebanon Now, Darat al Funun, Amman, 2008[14]
- The 4th Auckland Triennial, Auckland, 2010 [15]
- Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot for a Biennial, Sharjah, 2011[16]
- Seeing is Believing, KW Berlin, 2011[17]
- Home Works 6 Exhibition, Artheum, Beirut, 2013[18]
- Unnamed exhibition with Gheith Al-Amine, Aissa Deebi, Bassam Kahwagi, Jacko Restikian and Shawki Youssef, Galerie Tanit, Beirut, 2014[19]
References
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