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Gregory Buchakjian
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Gregory Buchakjian (b.
1971) is an art historian and
visual artist. PhD graduate at
Université Paris IV Sorbonne, he
is assistant professor at Académie
Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA)
where he co-founded, with Pierre
Hage-Boutros and Rana Haddad,
Atelier de Recherche ALBA
(1997-2004), a transdisciplinary
platform that triggered public
interventions in issues such as
memory and space appropriation.
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Gregory
Buchakjian est historien d’art et
artiste visuel. Il vit et
travaille à Beyrouth, où il est né
en 1971. Titulaire d'un doctorat à
l'Université Paris IV Sorbonne, il
est professeur assistant à
l’Académie Libanaise des
Beaux-Arts (ALBA), où il avait
cofondé, avec Pierre Hage-Boutros
et Rana Haddad, l’Atelier de
Recherche ALBA (1997-2004), une
plateforme transdisciplinaire
ayant appréhendé des
problématiques urbaines telles la
mémoire et l’appropriation de
l’espace.
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Buchakjian’s research
deals with modern and contemporary
art in Lebanon, focusing on city
and history. Political and social
turmoil, dereliction and heritage
and among the issues discussed in
his PhD dissertation: ‘Abandoned
Dwellings in Beirut. Wars and
Transformation of the Urban Space.
1860-2015’. The relation between
image and urban narratives is
present his publications Fouad
Elkoury, Passing Time (Beirut,
Kaph Books: 2017) and Traversées
Photographiques. Le journal du
Docteur Cottard (Beirut,
Arab Image Foundation: 2017). He
also published literary texts such
as “Les petits lits blancs” (Revue
Le Courage n.2, Paris,
Grasset: 2017).
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Ses recherches gravitent
autour de l’art au Liban et dans
le monde arabe. L'instabilité
politique, la ruine et le
patrimoine figurent parmi les
problématiques abordées par sa
thèse de doctorat intitulée : «
Habitats abandonnés de Beyrouth,
guerres et mutations de l'espace
urbain, 1860-2015 ». La relation
entre image et récit est
omniprésente dans ses publications
telles Fouad Elkoury, Passing
Time (Beyrouth : Kaph Books:
2017) et Traversées
Photographiques. Le journal du
Docteur Cottard (Beyrouth :
Fondation Arabe pour l’image,
2017). Il est également auteur de
textes littéraires tel « Les
petits lits blancs » (Revue Le
Courage n.2, Paris, Grasset
: 2017). |
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His visual work emerged
with the short film What,
Shoes? and the photographic
series Nighthawks, both
produced in the aftermath of the
2006 war in Lebanon. From 2009 to
2016, his exploration of abandoned
dwellings in Beirut generated his
PhD dissertation. This research
led to an artistic project in four
parts: the installations Inventory
and Typologies, the video
Archives and the
photographic series Tableaux.
In 2018, his pictures Fragments
from the Ridge Line are
presented in The Place that
Remains, first pavilion of
Lebanon at the Venice Biennale of
Architecture. |
Son
travail visuel a émergé avec le
film court Quoi, des
Chaussures? et la série de
clichés Nighthawks, tous
deux consécutifs à la guerre de
2006 au Liban. De 2009 à 2016, son
exploration des habitats
abandonnés de Beyrouth et la thèse
de doctorat qui en a découlé ont
généré un projet artistique
composé de quatre parties : Les
installations Inventaire
et Typologies, la vidéo Archives
et la série photographique Tableaux.
En 2018, ses photographies
Fragments from the Ridge Line sont
présentées à The Place that
Remains, premier pavillon du
Liban à la Biennale d’architecture
de Venise. |
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Gregory
Buchakjian is member of the
advisory committee of the Saradar
Collection and took part in many
juries including Sursock Museum
Salon d’Automne (2009), Villa
Empain’s Boghossian Prize (2012),
Beirut Art Center’s Exposure
(2013) and Beirut Art Residency
(2017). |
Membre du comité
consultatif de la Collection
Saradar, il a pris part à de
nombreux jurys académiques et
artistiques, dont le Salon
d’Automne du musée Sursock
(2009), le Prix Boghossian
(2012), Exposure (Beirut Art
Center, 2013) et Beirut Art
Residency (2017).
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| 2018
(05) |
[exhibition]
The Place
that Remains, Pavilion of
Lebanon, La Biennale di
Venezia, 16. Mostra
Internazionale di
Architettura, Arsenale,
Venice, IT
[view
project]
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| 2018
(05) |
[talk]
"Architecture, an entire
practice", with Rudy Ricciotti and
Bernard Khoury, Résidence des
Pins, Beirut, LB |
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| 2017
(11) |
[publication]
Fouad
Elkoury. Passing Time.
Kaph Books, Beirut, LB [view
project] |
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| 2017
(11) |
[publication]
Abdel-Hamid
Baalbaki, Saleh Barakat
Gallery and Alarm editions,
Beirut, LB [view
project]
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| 2017
(10) |
[publication] The
lives and deaths of inhabitants
in abandoned houses, 2017
[view project] |
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| 2017
(10) |
[talk]
"2007: The Pavilion of Lebanon", Venice
Biennale and the Arab World
conference, Ca' Foscari, Venice,
IT [view website] |
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| 2017
(05) |
[publication]
"Les petits lits
blancs" in
Revue Le courage nº3: Age
d'or / Age de fer.
Éditions Grasset &
Fasquelle, Paris, FR [view project] |
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| 2017
(03) |
[talk]
ARP Talk: Memories of Stones,
conversation with Said
Baalbaki. in
partnership with
ARP–ALBA-University of Balamand,
Sursock Museum, Beirut, LB [view website] |
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| 2016
(11) |
[talk]
"Refugee Crisis in the Levant",
panel in Design, Culture and
Societies, ARD 11, Ateliers de la
Recherche en Design, at Académie
Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA),
Beirut, LB [view website] |
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| 2016
(06) |
[PhD
defence] "Abandoned Dwellings in
Beirut. Wars and Transformation of
the Urban Space. 1860-2015",
Institut National d'Histoire de
l'Art, Paris, FR [view website] |
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| 2016
(06) |
[publication]
Confined Space by Laura J.
Padgett, text by Gregory
Buchakjian. Published by Galerie
Rautenstrauch and Anke
Ehle-Barthel, Frankfurt, DE [view project] |
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| 2016
(05) |
[talk]
Discussion with Ali Cherri
following the projection of his
films The Disquiet and The Digger,
Sursock Museum, Beirut, LB [view website] |
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| 2016
(04) |
[talk]
Discussion moderator with
Antoine Moreau,
Michel Lasserre and
Paola Yacoub, International
Conference: L’action d’art (The
Action of Art), Sursock Museum,
Beirut, LB [view brochure] |
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| 2016
(01) |
[talk]
"Excavating ghosts from one's
artwork", in Art and Ideology,
Seminar at the Centre André
Chastel / Institut National
d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris, FR [view brochure] |
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| 2015
(11) |
[publication]
Wadi Abou Jmil. Artist
Book by Saïd Baalbaki, text by
Gregory Buchakjian, Berlin, DE [view
project] |
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| 2015
(10) |
[publication]
Beirut by Night. A
Century of Nightlife Photography,
Middle East Journal of Culture and
Communication, BRILL, Leiden, NL [view
project] |
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| 2015
(10) |
[publication]
Last nights at the
Holiday Inn in Litterature,
art and contemporary world:
narratives, history, memory,
Colloquium papers, edited by Nayla
Tamraz, Presses de l'Université
Saint-Joseph, Beirut, LB [font
color="#000000"
size="-2">view project] |
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| 2015
(10) |
[talk]
"Lebanon at war[s] in Contemporary
Artistic Practices" with Marwan
Rechmaoui, Mounira Solh, Fares
Chalabi, Hachem Adnan, Lamia Abi
Azar and Ghassan Maasri.
Colloquium organized by Ifpo,
Mansion, Beirut, LB [view website] |
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| 2014
(12) |
[seminar]
Unintentional Monuments of the
Lebanese War, Inalco -
Institut National des Langues et
Civilisations Orientales, Paris,
FR |
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| 2014
(11) |
[publication]
Michelangelo
Pistoletto in Beirut, Beirut Exhibition
Center, Beirut, LB [view
project] |
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| 2014
(09) |
[publication]
Michel
Basbous, Beirut Exhibition
Center, Beirut, LB [view
project] |
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| 2014
(08) |
[talk]
"Modernity out of the Center",
Temporary Art Platform, Miziara,
LB [view website] |
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| 2014
(06) |
[talk]
"Art Practices Beyond the
Contextual Narrative in the Middle
East: Forms, Poetic Images and
Other Aesthetics" with Umer Butt,
Pascal Hachem, Basim Magdy and
Amanda Abi Khalil (moderator), Art
Basel, Basel, CH [view website]
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| 2014
(05) |
[talk]
"Last nights at the Holiday Inn",
in Literature, art and
the contemporary world:
narratives, history, memory
colloquium, Université
Saint-Joseph (USJ), Beirut, LB
[view brochure] |
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| 2014
(04) |
[talk]
"Aref Rayess and the 1960s-1970s
Beirut Art Scene", round table
with Catherine David, Amal
Traboulsi and Joseph Tarrab, Artistic
Research Practices (ARP) at Académie
Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA),
Beirut, LB
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| 2014
(03) |
[consultancy]
Michel Basbous: A
Modernist Project for
Lebanon, collaboration
with Agial Art Gallery, Art Dubai
Modern 2014, Madinat Jumeirah,
Dubai, AE |
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| 2014
(03) |
[consultancy]
Huguette Caland:
Bringing Life into Shapes,
collaboration with Galerie
Janine Rubeiz, Art Dubai Modern
2014, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, AE
[view brochure]
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| 2014
(01) |
[talk]
"The Artist in the Arab World:
Between Political Crisis and
Petrodollars", in The artist's
identity in European and
International History,
Seminar at the Centre André
Chastel / Institut National
d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris, FR [view website]
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| 2013 (12) |
[installation]
Abandoned
Dwellings from Beirut to Namibia,
produced by Valerie Cachard, Kolmanskop, NA [font
color="#000000"
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| 2013 (11) |
[consultancy]
Member of the
jury of Exposure 2013 exhibition
dedicated to emerging artists in
and from Lebanon, Beirut Art
Center, Beirut, LB [
view website] |
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2013
(09)
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[consultancy]
Pascal
Hachem, You Always Want What the
Other Has (Edition 2013),
Federica
Schiavo Gallery, Rome, IT [font
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| 2013 (04) |
[installation]
Leningrad,
Pellicula exhibition, Galerie
Janine Rubeiz, Beirut, LB [view
project] |
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| 2013 (04) |
[talk]
"Ethics and photography", Olayan
School of Business, American
University of Beirut, LB
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| 2013 (03) |
[publication]
Hanibal Srouji. Painting fire,
water, earth and air [view
project] |
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| 2012 (10) |
[publication]
Art
from Lebanon, Modern and
Contemporary Artists, volume 1:
1880-1975, launching, Beirut
Exhibition Center, Beirut, LB [view
project] |
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| 2012
(05) |
[consultancy]
Member of the
jury of the Boghossian Foundation
Prize for Young Lebanese Artists
2012, Villa
Empain, Brussels, BE [view website]
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| 2012 (05) |
[publication] War and Other
(Impossible) Possibilities, launching,
Papercup Store, Beirut, LB [view
project] |
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| 2012
(04) |
[consultancy]
Member of the Advisory board of
the Saradar Collection, Beirut,
LB |
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| 2012 (03) |
[publication] Art is the Answer,
Villa Empain, Brussels, BE [view
project]
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| 2012 (01)
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[photo projection] The
Dress at Platform,
Pictures of the Year event,
National Museum of Singapore, SG |
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2011 (09)
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[photo
exhibition] Nighthawks at
Metropolis, City Life in the Urban
Age, Noorderlicht Photofestival,
Groniningen, NL [font
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| 2011
(03) |
[talk]
Lebanese
Contemporary
Art and its Market, roundtable,
Beirut Art Fair, Biel, Beirut, LB
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| 2011 (05) |
[consultancy] Museum of Vine and Wine
official launching press
conference, Bristol Hotel, Beirut,
LB
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2011 (03)
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[photo
exhibition] Beach Life at Q
Calling the Shots, vol. II,
Narrative Photography, Q
Contemporary, Beirut, LB [view
project] |
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| 2010 (12) |
[photo
exhibition] Black Glam at
Salon d'Automne, Beirut Exhibition
Center, Beirut, LB |
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| 2010 (11)
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[photo
exhibition] Bejart/Baalbeck at
Q Calling the Shots, vol. I,
Architectural Photography, Q
Contemporary, Beirut, LB [view
project] |
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| 2010 (06)
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[publication +
exhibition] De Lumière et de Sang,
Fondation Audi, Beirut, LB,
catalogue Alarm Editions [view
project] |
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| 2010 (04)
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[publication] Esteban Lisa, Fundación
Esteban Lisa, Buenos
Aires, AR and Fundación Antonio
Pérez, Disputación de Cuenca, ES [view
project] |
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| 2010 (02)
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[publication] Convergence. New Art
from Lebanon, Katzen
Arts Center, Washington D.C., US [view
project] |
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| 2009 (07)
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[photo
exhibition] Under(the)line, Araman
Factory, Bourj Hammoud, LB [view
project] |
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| 2008 (08) |
[publication] Pièces Choisies,
collection Bank Audi, Beirut, LB
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| 2008 (06)
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[performance] Le franc tireur,
l'architecte, le consul et
l'arménien, IESAV,
Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut,
LB [view
project] |
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| 2008 (05)
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[photo
exhibition] Nighthawks,
Comme des Garçons Guerilla Store,
Beirut, LB [view
project] |
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| 2008 (01)
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[publication +
installation] Pending Piece,
Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts,
Beirut, LB [view
project] |
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| 2006 (09)
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[film] What,
Shoes, Festival de Genève
La Bâtie, Geneva, CH; Beirut D.C.,
Beirut, LB; Nafas Beirut, Espace
SD, Beirut LB; Dubai International
Film Festival, Dubai, UAE; Sydney
Arab Film Festival, Sydney, AU;
Shorts and Shwarma, Institut
Français, London, UK
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| 2006 (05)
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[publication] Halte, ed. Labor
et Fides, Geneva, CH
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| 2003 (08)
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[installation] Points d'eau,
Salima, LB, with Atelier de
Recherche ALBA in
partnership with
Patrimoine Sans Frontières and
Institut Français
d'Architecture |
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| 2002 (11)
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[publication] Pas de Place,
with Atelier de Recherche ALBA,
Beirut, LB |
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| 2001 (09)
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[installation] Dialogue des Cultures
dans un jardin de sourds,
Centre Culturel Français, Beirut,
LB, with Atelier de Recherche ALBA
[view
project] |
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| 2001 (07)
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[publication +
installation] Lieux: 1 Acte / 2
Pièces, Fraykeh Silk
Factory, LB, with Atelier de
Recherche ALBA and Fraykeh
Festival 2001 [view
project] |
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| 2001 (02)
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[installation] 1 Acte / 2 Pièces,
Théâtre de Beyrouth, Beirut, LB,
with Atelier de Recherche ALBA and
Shams |
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| 2000 (05)
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[installation] Machines Célibataires,
Beirut Hall, Beirut, LB,
with Atelier de Recherche ALBA [view
project] |
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| 1999 (07) |
[installation] Bien Fonds 1237:
l'architecte, le vernaculaire et
le franc tireur, La
Fabrika, Beirut, LB, with
Atelier de Recherche ALBA |
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| 1998 (07) |
[projection] Mois
de la photographie au Liban,
various locations, LB, with Académie Libanaise des
Beaux-Arts ALBA [view
project] |
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| 1997 (10)
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[performance] Hommage
au Grand Théâtre de Beyrouth,
Grand Theatre, Beirut, LB, with
Atelier de Recherche ALBA and
Companie Théâtre Ecarlate |
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| 1997 (05)
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[installation] L'ALBA Marque l'Espace
du CCF, Centre Culturel
Français, Beirut, LB,with Académie
Libanaise des Beaux-Arts ALBA [view
project] |
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| 1997 (04) |
[publication] Les
maîtres du temps, for
L'Agenda Culturel [view
project] |
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| 1996 (04)
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Launching of Baron &
Baron, www.baronbaron.com [view
project] |
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| 1995 (11) |
[publication] Le
musée à l'école: Cezanne,
for L'Agenda Culturel [view
project] |
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1995 (10)
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Starts teaching at
Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts,
ALBA, Beirut, LB
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| 1995 (09) |
Diplôme d'Etudes
Approfondies (D.E.A.) in Art
History, Université Paris IV,
Sorbonne, Paris, FR
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| 1993 (06) |
Maitrise in Art History,
Université Paris IV, Sorbonne,
Paris, FR
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| 1987 (08)
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[performance] This is a
slide of my House, Legacy
International Youth Program,
Bedford, VA, US [view
project] |
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| 1971 (07) |
Birth in Beirut, LB
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