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Wadi Abou Jmil
Artist Book by Saïd Baalbaki,
Berlin, 2015
based on “le chantier” series
executed in Beirut between 2000
and 2001.
Printed in Berlin, on Velin
d’arches paper, in an edition of
24 copies, 20 numbered and 4
artist’s Proof E.a.
Lithography by Saïd
Baalbaki, Berlin 2012–2014
Text by Gregory Buchakjian,
Beirut 2015
Editing by Nathan moore, Berlin
Lithography printing by Steffen
Tschesno, berlin
Text printing by Harald Weller,
Berlin Typeface Sabon-antiqua
Portfolio by markus Rottmann,
Berlin
Download
text (PDF)
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related projects:
Abandoned
dwellings in Beirut
Leningrad
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Excerpt
Expelled from
home, a toddler came to
the Valley with his
family. He grew up
there.
He witnessed war.
He witnessed ruins.
He witnessed
reconstruction.
‘Every building is
emptied of its
inhabitants.
Then, every façade is
veiled – hidden.
Each building is emptied
of its entrails. it is a
patient in an operating
room or the dead body in
Rembrandt’s anatomy
lecture.
all the components are
expelled through
barrels, as though from
stomachs. Next, the
veiled façade disappears
for good.
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>> Video:
Said
Baalbaki and Gregory
Buchakjian about Wadi
Abou Jmil, Saradar
Collection, Words on
Works
>> exhibitions:
Agial Art
Gallery, Beirut,
11'2015, with "Nos
âmes en chantier" by
Baalbaki and Valérie
Cachard and "The
Baalbaki Journey or
Saïd and the Little
Boat" by Baalbaki
and Marwan Kassab
Bachi
Analix Forever,
Geneva, 12'2015,
"DUO-DUEL, Beyrouth
mon amour" with
Emmanuel Regent
Ahliah School
Centennial Art
Exhibit: Five
artists in one
century 1916 to
2017, 02'2017, with
Etel Adnan, Saloua
Raouda Choucair,
Afaf Zurayk and
Ayman Baalbaki
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selected reviews:
Zeina
Zalzal, L'Orient Le
Jour, 4'12'2015
Hussein
Ben Hamza, Al
Akhbar, 12'2015
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