Spring 2014
Greta Torossian
By Greta Torossian Spring 2014 | ArteZine A white square ceramic tiled wall behind a big heavy machine juicing carrots and my impatient need to have that juice: this is the only vivid memory I have from Beirut’s city center before the civil war erupted in 1975. At that time, I was 6 years old. During…
Hrayr Eulmessekian
By Hrayr Eulmessekian Spring 2014 | ArteZine What comes after the bourgeois entitlement to closure? Would it be more proper to ask, what becomes of the bourgeoisie when it finally gains that sense of closure? We are left muted to negotiate safe passage at checkpoints. In time and distance, our narratives acquire mythical proportions. Meanwhile, residues…
Anita Toutikian
By Anita Toutikian Spring 2014 | ArteZine Perceptual blindness is a psychological condition, meaning, if the brain cannot recognize, acknowledge or process something, the eye cannot see it. The Lebanese were perceptually blind about the imminent “Civil War”, they never called it war, they called it “Al-ahdath or الاحداث” meaning “The events” or “the incidents”. The…
Kristine Khouri
By Kristine Khouri Spring 2014 | Gallery The Sultan Gallery is an art gallery initiated by brother and sister duo, Ghazi and Najat Sultan, who opened the gallery in 1969 in Kuwait City, and which closed with the Iraqi invasion in 1990. With a mission to promote and exhibit “modern young Arab artists,” the gallery was…
Winter 2013
Marianne Catzaras
By Marianne Catzaras, ArteEast Featured Artist Winter 2013 | Gallery To the question asked “why do I photograph?” the answer is plural, Yet obsessed with the same concern, that of giving substance To unusual and familiar apparitions playing along with me throughout my journey. Transvestites, deported, fools, nonconformist wandering beings, randomly caught Through chance encounters or…
Meriem Bouderbela
By Meriem Bouderbela, ArteEast Featured Artist Winter 2013 | Gallery Mon travail de plasticienne a toujours été marqué par ma double origine, tunisienne et française. La culture arabo-musulmane m’empêchait la figuration humaine ; la culture occidentale l’exposait au contraire jusque dans les caricatures de l’Orientalisme. Entre les deux univers, j’ai orienté mes recherches plastiques vers l’interface,…
Barrak Alzaid
By Barrak Alzaid, Editor Winter 2013 | ArteZine This edition of the ArteZine explores connections between kinship structures and art history to reveal methodologies for unearthing narratives erased by market forces and geopolitics. Each essay is anchored in a shifting sense of place that reflects the distances between contributor and site of exploration. The contributions in this issue…
By ArteEast Winter 2013 | ArteZine Monira: Okay, so there’s this painting of yours that really affected me when I was growing up called “Flying Desire,” I think you too, Fatima? Fatima: Yes, for sure. It was so scary but captivating. Monira: I felt in awe when I saw it. I was always looking at it. Fatima: Also because of…
Wafa Gabsi
By Wafa Gabsi, Editor Winter 2013 | ArteZine This issue marks the second installment of a six-quarter cycle of the Virtual Gallery that spotlights artists from the Maghreb leading up to the 2014 edition of the Marrakech Biennial. Each subsequent gallery will showcase artists who deal with the every day in their work to reveal the…
Mikhail Karikis
By Mikhail Karikis Winter 2013 | ArteZine Over the past fifteen years I have been exploring the human voice, thinking of it as a malleable sculptural material and a conceptual tool to explore human experience. At first, both the voice and breath seem to resist representation and give rise to a dynamics of dematerialisation and ethereality;…
