Nationality: French & Lebanon
Born in Lebanon in 1972, Lamia Joreige is a visual artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Beirut. She uses archival documents and fictitious elements to reflect on the relation between individual stories and collective History. She explores the possibilities of representation of the Lebanese wars and their aftermath, and Beirut, a city at the center of her imagery. Her work is essentially on Time, the recordings of its trace and its effects on us.
Among her works: Beirut, autopsy of a city 2010 - Tyre 1,2,3,4,5, Portrait of a housing cooperative 2010 - 3 Triptychs 2009 - Full Moon 2007 - Nights and Days 2007 - Je d'histoires 2007 - The end of... - ...and the living is easy, in collaboration with Rabih Mroué 2007 - A Journey 2006 - Objects of War 1, 2, 3, 4, 1999-2006 - Embrace 2004 - Sleep 2004 - Here and Perhaps Elsewhere 2003 - Replay (bis), 2002 - Replay 2000 - Le déplacement 1998-2000 - Untitled 1997-2003
She is the author of two publications: Time and the Other, Alarm Editions, Beirut - 2004 & Ici et peut-être ailleurs, H.K.W., Berlin - 2003
Lamia Joreige is a co-founder and co-director of Beirut Art Center, a non-profit space dedicated to contemporary art in Lebanon
4 MOVIES IN DISTRIBUTION
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EMBRACE - ETREINTE
2004 / DVCAM / color / silent / single screen / 4' 30 / 35 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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SLEEP - SOMMEIL
2004 / Super 8mm / color / sound / single screen / 7' 00 / 54 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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UNTITLED 1997-2003
1997-2003 / color / sound / single screen / 8' 00 / 27 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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REPLAY (BIS)
2002 / Video / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 9' 12 / 35 € distribution: Digital file on server |