Lamia Joreige: Uncertain Times – Mapping a transformation
Lecture by Lamia Joreige (Lebanon, Beirut) in collaboration with the research project FWF-PEEK AR 679 Conviviality as Potentiality and Studio Art and Intervention/Concept (Post-conceptual Art Practices), prof. Marina Grzinic.
Lecture: UNCERTAIN TIMES
Lamia Joreige will present Uncertain Times, a project that encompasses research, writing, and the production of a body of works covering the period from the end of the Ottoman Empire to the beginning of the French and British mandates in Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine (1913-1920). Joreige invites us to reflect on historical processes and the role of documents central to her artistic practice.
Lamia Joreige is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Beirut. She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she studied painting and filmmaking. Using archival documents and fictional elements, she explores history, its possible narrations, and the interplay between individual stories and collective memory.
Rooted in the Lebanese experience, her practice investigates how the Lebanese wars and their aftermath can be represented, focusing particularly on Beirut, a city central to her imagery.
Her work revolves around time, the traces it leaves, and its effects on us.
Lamia Joreige’s artworks—encompassing drawings, paintings, sculptures, and large-scale multimedia installations—have been exhibited internationally at venues including the Centre Pompidou, le 104, and Musée Nicéphore Niépce (France); Liverpool Biennial, Tate Modern, Serpentine Gallery, and Cardiff National Museum (U.K.); MAXXI, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, and the Venice Biennale (Italy); Radcliffe Institute and Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, International Center of Photography, the New Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Taymour Grahne Gallery (USA); Istanbul Biennial and Arter (Turkey); Sharjah Biennial (UAE), Mathaf (Qatar), and Marfa Gallery (Lebanon).
Lamia Joreige has contributed writings and visual essays to various art periodicals, including TDR (MIT Press Journal), Kamel Lazaar Foundation Projects, Apexart, Afterall online magazine, Sarai Reader 7, Art Journal, Artforum, and Camera Austria.
She was a fellow at the Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris (Columbia University) in 2021 and at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard University) in 2016–2017. Joreige is also a co-founder and former co-director (2009-2014) of the Beirut Art Center, where she remains on the board.