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01/05/2022

‘Beyrouth. The eras of design’

at the CID Grand-Hornu from 24 April until 14 August.

present works: copy/paste Arne Yacobsen fakes, Pandora’s box, mother feather, hexagon IV. and rocker.

21/04/2022

Beirut. The eras of Design exhibition.

Despite all possible challenges, Lebanon’s design scene has flourished with a diverse palette of talents.

The exhibition portraits the dynamic evolution and growth from 1950s.

For this journey through time at the Centre of Innovation and Design, Le Grand-Hornu, Belgium, curator Marco Costantini (Mudac) focused on design as a key driver of Lebanon’s development and asked Ghaith&Jad to create a scenography around three main parts.

‘Beirut. The eras of Design’ will try to analyse this specific context, in which economic and architectural reconstruction, social awareness, and international development all come into play.

Design encapsulates the country’s very desire to take control of its own destiny and image by proposing objects and forms that reflect a myriad of heritages but are also deeply rooted in a complex reality.

The aim is to showcase the dynamic evolution and growth of design in Lebanon, ‘Beirut. The eras of Design’ features three sections:
- The history of Lebanese Design
- From the 1990s to the present day
- Minjara Tripoli
Exhibition from 24 April to 14 August.
Opening on April 23th, 6 pm at CID Grand-Hornu.

/ miroir (marco costantini)
(collaborateur scientifique)s (rafael assistant de marco, mudac)
(scenographe)
(graphiste)
(assistante Marie, CID)

DESIGNERS :

baroud









yasmine



MINJARA :

27/10/2021

showing at le CID.

Cosmos.

Design from here and beyond.

24.10.21 to 27.02.22.

link: https://www.cid-grand-hornu.be/en/expositions/cosmos-0

Black holes, dark matter, spiral nebulae, exoplanets, gravitational waves, big bang, the multiverse... The countless objects and cosmic phenomena that shape our Universe offer as many sources of inspiration for literature, music, visual and live arts… Design is no exception to this same fascination.

Since the dawn of humankind, the Universe has been the deepest source of wonder. What is our place in this vast expanse of space, that took its origin some 13.8 billion light-years across? How did the cosmic evolution enfold? Are we alone? Why does the Universe exist at all?.

2 works:.

wormhole II. and universe composition.

21/10/2020

on mars watch, that moment in the Marina building in Beirut looks a though it took impact on August 4. the blast ripped crumple the city to shreds, with a bomb ranked third in the world after Hiroshima and Nagasaki - with many people still missing, killing more than two hundred, injuring six thousand five hundred or more, leaving some three hundred thousand homeless and five hundred thousand youth and more still migrating, is a sad day to recall for Beirut when time stopped at 607 for the world humanity to witness. now little things make me happy; the resilience in the Lebanese always resistant in the fight against terror and corruption helping one another picking up the pieces as one people bonded strong together gives me hope. i am finding utter beauty writing up an all new code in temporary make shift repairs on buildings through out the scaffold shroud city, wounded patched boarded with metal plates, frames of wood panels with plastics or volumes left empty await glass. if restoration were to keep deep scratch marks on the facade clad and empty space, lit up as remnant of blast highlights - VIVID so as to never forget - the bomb craft work new order in building esthetic design keeping live forever in our hearts mind the memory of scarcity.

29/09/2020

now showing ‘timeline of the universe’ at 5VIE Milano.

instagram;
facebook; 5VIE

wyssem nochi presents: TIMELINE OF THE UNIVERSE a virtual work - vase - a mental (back) space The Holy Grail... at your fingertips dedicated: To all, the not...

28/09/2020

‘timeline of the universe’ at 5vie Milano. show opens today.

instagram;
facebook; 5VIE

05/11/2019

The Fabric of the Revolution.

30/09/2019

https://youtu.be/jpuGDDkYHls

The Fabric of Space. Computing Love-_ Love is the Universal Solvent_

MACAM Biennial 2019.. Universal Data. An exploration of our Digital Presence in commemoration of the 70th. Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. Curator: Sara Schaub,

https://youtu.be/jpuGDDkYHls

The project relates to the string theory and the eleven dimensions of space. Because string theory potentially provides a unified description of gravity and particle physics, it is a candidate for a theory of everything, a self-contained mathematical model that describes all fundamental forces and forms of matter. Wyssem Nochi transcribes each letter of the Arabic names for the eleven stages of love into the binary code, zero and one, forming The Fabric of Space, an immersive audio-

visual stream of the eleven stages of love.

As someone passes in front of the projection, he will be wrapped in this fabric of space. Captured by a digital stream of computing love that will momentarily bring together ‘two heads’ (stopping time in a hidden kiss) when in front of a digital binary code projection.

A short film project of these moments and a still photograph hang side by side next to the large Fabric of Space projection that people can "wear" in reference to the painting titled The Lovers by Rene Magritte (1928), the digital work of Ryoji Ikeda and the text of Saqib Hussain. Code: by Ali Zogheib. Soundtrack: by Obi Noshie.

The Fabric of Space. Computing Love_ Love is the Universal Solvent_ MACAM Biennial 2019. Universal Data. An exploration of our Digital Presence in commemorat...

13/09/2019

MACAM has the pleasure to invite you to the opening of

UNIVERSAL DATA
An Exploration of our Digital Presence

On Saturday, September 14, 2019 at 6 pm
with Live-Performance by Manuela Hartel

"Every day 2.5 Quintillion bytes of data are created. That's 2,500,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of data."

60 artists reflect on contemporary topics, such as access to information, digital identity, freedom of expression and online communities. This exhibition invites us to look at the various facets of our immaterial digital universe, unravelling its impact on humanity through multidisciplinary art forms.

Curated by Sara Schaub

Exhibition runs until December I, 2019

Location: MACAM Museum, Alita|Byblos (highway north, at Nahr Ibrahim, exit Qartaba, 7km uphill) Link to google maps

Link to the event on Facebook

Bus Shuttle Service available
Departure from Beirut at 5:00 pm, Martyrs Square
Roundtrip fee: $10
To reserve a seat, please call 03 197 900

Artists

International and Lebanese artists are presenting their installations, videos, sculptures, paintings and performances.

From Argentina Marcos Calvari; from Australia Stephen Copland; from Brazil Cecilia Cavallieri and Fellipe Vergani; from Canada Pierre Chaumont; from Cyprus Tatiana Ferahian, Marlen Karletidou, Andreas Tomblin; from Egypt Hassan Yasmein; from Germany Janina Baldhuber, Simon Freund, Manuela Hartel, Elisa Goldox, Anna Hohmeier, Nicola Koetterl, Joerg Rupert, Klaus von Bruch, Jack Wolf; from Greece Vasilis Karvounis;

from Italy artist duo Antonello-Ghezzi, Daniele Zerbi; from Jordan Areej Al Huniti; from Lebanon Ad Achkar, Layal Aoun, Haibat Balaa Bawab, Taline Balian, Samar Beydoun, Nevine Bouez, Layal Dagher, Raymond Essayan, Renee Fawaz, Noor Haidar, Carole Ingea, Rina Jaber, Rima Kadissi, Michel Karsouny, Selim Mawad, Elie Nafaa, Ayman Nahle, Wyssem Nochi, Hanan Sayegh, Rawan Shouman, Nour Sokhon, Maria Tabet, Shireen Taweel (Australia-Lebanon), Jacques Vartabedian, Nadine Zahreddine;

from Luxemburg Jacqueline Bejani; from Marocco Moawya Al Khadr; from Poland Alame Bilal, Joanna Zabielska; from Spain Eduardo Morales Palomares, Xavi Munoz; from Syria Rita Hassouany; Abdullah Sharw; from South Korea Lim Seung Kyun; from UK Jennifer Crouch, Kaspar Ravel, Vijay Patel (UK-India); from USA Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Carla Gannis, Jonathan Harris and from Venezuela Antonio Lazo.

21/08/2019

Petals on a balcony in Beirut, handmade chairs n bamboo i designed and produced for Carwan. photo by Guillaume Delaubier.

12/10/2018

“Lebanese Design, the Quest for Heightened Senses” article in Cedar Wings - read in-flight or on issue.com pp 98-99.

10/10/2018

last night Clippings Design and Wallpaper magazine “Key Trends” presentation featured “Beirut Power”candle holders dumbbells.