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Walid sadek and bassam el baroni in conversation
Walid Sadek (born in Beirut, Lebanon, 1966) is a Lebanese artist and writer. He is an associate professor at the Department of Fine Arts and Art History of the American University of Beirut.
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- Walid sadek and bassam el baroni in conversation
- Claymation walid sadek
- Life and work
- Publications
- Solo exhibitions
- Group exhibitions
- References
Claymation walid sadek
Life and work
Walid Sadek uses poetic and metaphoric language to evoke on post war Lebanon. In 1999, he produced Bigger than Picasso a tiny and unexpected book using word and image to criticize a political situation in the country.
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. He was guest editor of the academic journal Third Text on issue 117, July 2012, titled "Not, Not Arab".
Publications
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.