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Filmmakers and artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige work between photography, installations, video, and cinema, whether documentary or fiction films. They question storytelling, the fabrication of images and representations, the construction of imaginaries and the writing of history. Their multi-awarded films include Memory Box (2021), Ismyrna (2016), The Lebanese Rocket Society (2012), Je Veux Voir (2008), A Perfect Day (2005)… Several retrospectives of their films have been presented in renowned institutions. Their artworks are part of the most important exhibitions and public and private collections. They have been awarded the prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2017 for their project Unconformities. Joana and Khalil are both very involved in Metropolis, Cinematheque Beirut and are the co-founders of Abbout Productions with Georges Schoucair.

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In Lebanon, many dreams of elsewhere, following in In Lebanon, many dreams of elsewhere, following invisible migratory cartographies that link specific towns to distant horizons. But from northern Lebanon, these imagined routes often point toward a place heavy with fantasy and collective longing: Australia. This dream is particularly strong in Bab al-Tabbaneh, one of the poorest areas along the Mediterranean, where Nazih, a friend of artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, grew up. Like many around him, Nazih once planned to leave clandestinely, joining a small group intent on reaching Australia via Indonesia and a perilous sea crossing. At the last moment, he decided not to go. His four companions, Fathi, Mustapha, Mohamad, and Tawfiq, continued without him, sailing into uncertainty.Their journey ended in prolonged confinement on Christmas Island, where Australia’s “elsewhere” remained inaccessible and abstract. Time stretched into endless waiting, a suspended temporality, that Hadjithomas and Joreige evoke by collaborating with five women, most of whom had never traveled, asking them to embroider the sea, transforming waiting into a tactile, collective gesture. Drawing on the very impressive annual forest-to-shore migration of the Christmas Island Red Crab, Asylum of Our Dreams reflects on movement that is arduous, interrupted, and often unsuccessful. Exile exposes global structures of exclusion, systems of control and geopolitical violence. The land is both imagined and denied. Yet the dream endures.Thank you to Hoor Al Qasimi and the Sydney Biennale for inviting us to develop this commission.@hooralq @biennalesydney This work wouldn’t have been possible without the following people: Nazih Yassin, Toufic Rahmoun, Mhamad Breis, Fathi Omar Bashir, Moustafa Yahya Arnaout for their testimonies. Embroideries by Randa al Seblani, Dima Eddé, Joumana el Hage, Jiana Reslane, Imane Salamé and Le Temps Brodé, NGO promoting artisan’s freedom & creativity by Isabelle Helou & Dominique Eddé for their creativity and openness to collaborate. @letempsbrode - the remaining credits are in the comments below.
THE BARBARIANS ARE COMING TODAY Our Beloved Beiru THE BARBARIANS ARE COMING TODAYOur Beloved Beirut view from the mountain: Waiting for the Barbarians and WONDER BEIRUT: The battles of the Hotels presented in the group show “Shifting Crossroads” at Circolo in Milan until July 3rd.@circolo.art @saikalis_bay_foundation @nicolesaikalisbay
A little teaser ahead of the opening of the Sydney A little teaser ahead of the opening of the Sydney Biennale 2026, thank you to Hoor Al Qasimi for inviting us to develop this commission on displacement and exile, a subject that is sadly so relevant today; comprising of a video installation and embroideries.We’ll show you more in a few days. @biennalesydney@hooralq @letempsbrode Thank you to Nazih Yassin, Toufic Rahmoun, Mhamad Breis, Fathi Omar Bashir, Moustafa Yahya Arnaout for sharing your stories and Le Temps Brodé by Isabelle Helou & Dominique Eddé and the embroiderers Randa al Seblani, Dima Eddé, Joumana el Hage, Jiana Reslane, Imane Salamé.
Announcing with a lot of emotion our participation Announcing with a lot of emotion our participation at the next Venise Biennale « In Minor Keys » by our beloved Koyo ❤️ @madamekoyo @labiennale @rashasalti @westvirginiababy @gabefeijoo @neneperei @siddharthamitter @raw.gram2011#BiennaleArte2026 #InMinorKeys
Our next feature film in the making, Beirut Baby, Our next feature film in the making, Beirut Baby, has been selected for the 43rd edition of Cinemart - IFFR’s co-production market!@iffr.nl @hautetcourt @abboutproductions @yagerge @christianeid1
Some of our Wonder Beirut works are still on view Some of our Wonder Beirut works are still on view in Beirut. Visit “Becoming Icon”, curated by Yasmine Chemali at the Sursock Museum and “Impressions of Paradise” at the Nuhad Es-Said Pavilion to discover “The story of a pyromaniac photographer” and “Lightboxes”. Based on postcards from the 60s depicting images of pre-war “idealised “Lebanon, the Wonder Beirut series focuses on the way the fictional photographer Abdallah Farah, systematically burned the negatives of the postcards, to conform his images with the damage caused to the sites by shelling and street fighting. Wonder Beirut is a way of exploring and documenting the history of the Lebanese civil wars and including it in contemporary imaginaries.@sursockmuseum @nuhadessaidpavilion
Etel, 4 ans déjà que je regarde tous les jours ce Etel, 4 ans déjà que je regarde tous les jours ce tableau que tu as peint la dernière fois que je t ai vue, que je tiens dans ma main ces pierres que nous avons été ramasser ensemble avec Simone et Khalil et que Rabih a recouvert d’or pour que cela nous lie et nous protège. Merci de m avoir offert la joie et la chance de ton amitié.
180 seconds of Lasting Images (2006) is an install 180 seconds of Lasting Images (2006) is an installation made of 4,500 Lambda photographic prints on wood with Velcro fasteners, each representing the images of a 3 minutes Super8 film. It is taken from the video Lasting Images (2003), an undeveloped Super 8 film by Alfred Junior Kettaneh, Khalil’s uncle, abducted on August 19, 1985, during the Lebanese Civil Wars.180 seconds of Lasting Images represents the attempt to revive a presence, a ghostly image that resists disappearance lingering like a mourning without closure, memories whose traces are fated to remain. 180 seconds of Lasting Images is on view in the group show “Invisibles” at the FRAC Bretagne until November 16th.@fracbretagne

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