Walid Sadek

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Walid Sadek (born in Beirut, Lebanon, 1966) is a Lebanese artist and writer. He is a professor at the Department of Fine Arts and Art History of the American University of Beirut, and held its chairmanship from 2017 to date.

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Life and work

Walid Sadek uses poetic and metaphoric language to evoke on post war Lebanon. [1] In 1999, he produced Bigger than Picasso a tiny and unexpected book using word and image to criticize a political situation in the country. [2]

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. [3] He was guest editor of the academic journal Third Text on issue 117, July 2012, titled "Not, Not Arab". [4]

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.

Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

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References

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  4. ↑ "Third Text. Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture". Third Text. July 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
  5. ↑ "The Ruin to Come, Essays from a protracted war". Motto Books. 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  6. ↑ "Place at Last Walid Sadek". Beirut Art Center. 2010. Archived from the original on 29 May 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
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