Akram Zaatari

Zaatari’s work reflects on the shifting nature of borders and the production and circulation of images in the context of the current political divisions in the Middle East. His videos and photographic installations look into technologies of image production and communication and the notions of surveillance, exploring the ways different media apparatuses get employed in the service of power, resistance, and memory. His work has been shown at Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Grey Art Gallery (NYU), Haus der Kunst (Munich), Munich Kunstverein, Lisson Gallery (London), MUSAC (Leon, Spain), Sfeir Semler Gallery (Beirut/Hamburg), and the Van Abbe Museum. He took part in the Torino Triennale 2008, and the biennales of Venice 2007, Gawangju, Sydney and Sao Paolo 2006. Retrospectives of his video work have been presented at the Tate Modern, French Cinematheque, Festival des 3 Continents / Nantes, and Oberhausen Short Film Festival. His videos have been shown at film festivals such as the Berlinale, FID/Marseille, Rotterdam, Toronto, and Videobrasil. What Is That and between Arab Women and Video?: The Case of Beirut by Akram Zaatari. HomeWorks: A Forum on Cultural Practices in the Region (Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria), 2003. Beirut: Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, 2003. What is That and between Arab Women and Video?: The Case of Beirut by Jalal Tawfiq. Transit visa on video and cities, 2001. Beirut: Transit visa, 2001.