Exhibitions

“In a State of Flux, nomad/utopia’s inaugural exhibition in Beirut, examines issues of impermanence in the contemporary world, with a focus on the Middle East and more particularly Lebanon. Uncertainty takes a toll on people and their psyche, as beings and minds evolve in a state of voluntary or involuntary displacement, through geography but also within…

A Franco-Algerian artist based in Beirut since 2019, she has made a name for herself with silkscreen prints whose fragmented, fictitious graphic composition of the urban environment reflects her personal emotions. In 2021, imbued with the city and inhabited by her memories, Lilia Benbelaïd began writing a comic strip in which architecture becomes the medium…

“Even in our anger and rejection of the systems that contain us, we become non-consensually complicit in a web of society and citizenship, forever at the mercy of the mechanics and technologies of predation. Since childhood we have been indoctrinated and primed to accept constant threat as a normality, to situate ourselves as fair game…

“Was I born of a lie,  in a country that did not exist?“   Inspired by the words of Nadia Tueni, Salah Missi examines how the construction of a collective identity is correlated with the existence of mental boundaries, and how our existence is shaped by it.   In Lebanon, a multiplicity of borders –…

no/mad utopia is pleased to present La consonance des eaux, a sonic and visual performance by Engram Collective [Joanna Andraos + Caroline Tabet] & Jawad Nawfal.   La consonance des eaux is an exploration that reflects the multiple aspects of water – its trajectories, sources, uses, histories and other mythologies.  Initiated by Engram Collective alongside…

A Corps perdu curatorial statement by Marie Tomb   With an impetuous, unconditional energy, À Corps perdu considers the uneasy experience of inhabiting our bodies and encountering those of others. Sirine Germani and Shawki Youssef bring forth the tension between abandonment and immersion in the world with human figures surrendering to the painterly landscape. They…

An unpredictable ensemble of monochromes on paper, woven together by the Surrealist imagination of the duo WHITE PAPER (Carel Marso and Jacques Vartabedian), revives the playful, and experimental dimensions of art making to examine the fragility and humour inherent in human communication.   Three Games is quite literal, in a way, as the duo shares…

Cet album retrace l’histoire de Robert Sacy, un médecin libanais. Né en 1950 à Beyrouth, le docteur a eu une vie mouvementée à l’image du Liban. Il a traversé la guerre civile libanaise (1975-1990) et la reconstruction des années 1990-2000. Pour plus de justice sociale dans un pays où les inégalités sont la règle, il…

This forest is textured with different kinds of time, as the surface of the pool is dimpled with different kinds of rain. __ Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass   Undergrowth can be an imperceptible movement – slow, quiet, and persistent. Ieva Saudargaitė Douaihi understands this, observing her natural characters – trees, bushes, bones, and other…

The Unreliable Ledger explores the fragility of memory- voluntary or imposed – and how it is recorded, manipulated, and erased.   Through analog techniques in printmaking and darkroom photography, this exhibition examines forgetting not as a failure, but as an intentional act— sometimes protective, sometimes destructive. Memory is rarely objective; it is edited, redacted, and…