Lamia Joreige

A strange feeling of familiarity

Naïla Kettaneh Kunigk and Sandra Dagher are pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Lamia Joreige A strange feeling of familiarity.

The exhibition will be on view from November 21st, 2007 through January 12th 2008 in a space specially renovated for the occasion at Kettaneh Building, on Nahr Street next to the Electricty of Lebanon, Mar Mikhael. The exhibition space will be open from Monday to Saturday, from 2 pm until 8 pm.

A reception in the presence of the artist will be held on Tuesday November 20th, starting 6 pm.

Lamia Joreige is presenting four new works, which include prints, a video and one interactive installation, all rooted in the continuity of her preceding works.
She uses archival documents and elements of fiction to reflect on History and its possible narration, and on the relation between individual stories and collective histories, underlining the process of memory and the impossibility of accessing a complete narrative. Her work essentially centers on Time: the recording of time, of its trace and its effects on us.
« As History escapes us, only fragments remain, words and images; each fragment carries its own memory and its whole History.
These fragments are memory and oblivion at the same time, parts of an incomplete whole and assembled subsequently. Rearranged
and re-interpreted, they border fiction.»

Born in Lebanon in 1972, Lamia Joreige is a painter and video artist who lives and works in Beirut. A strange feeling of familiarity is her fifth solo exhibition in Beirut following her shows at the French Cultural Center (1997), and Janine Rubeiz Gallery (1999, 2000 & 2004). She also had solo exhibitions at Townhouse gallery & ACAF (Egypt, 2004), Nicéphore Niépce Museum (France, 2003) and Nikki Marquardt Gallery (Paris, 2000).

She presented her work in various film festivals and venues among which: Festival du Film Libanais Nés à Beyrouth, The Tate Modern (London), Paris Cinema (France), The Images Festival (Toronto), Harvard and Columbia universities (USA), The Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin, La Cinemathèque (Paris), The Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Mediterranean Festival of Cinema (Montpellier), Ayam Beirut Al Cinema'ya (Beirut), Homeworks II Ashkal Alwan (Beirut).

And diverse exhibitions among the most recent: Foreword (The Pavilion of Lebanon at the 52nd Venice Biennale), The 4th Goteburg Biennial (Sweden), The 2nd Seville Biennial (Spain), Rumor as Media (Akbank Sanat, Istanbul), Coding Decoding (Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark), Out of Beirut (Modern Art Oxford, U.K), INSA art space (Seoul), Present / Absence (Tanit gallery, Munich), Laughter (in LIFT) (Bargehouse, London), Possible Narratives (in VideoBrasil, Sao Paulo), DisOrientation (House of World Cultures, Berlin).

Her work is part of various publications such as: Sarai Reader (India, 2007), Art journal (USA, 2007), Art forum (USA, October 2006), Out of Beirut, M.A.O. (U.K. 2006), Livraison n°4 (Rhinoceros, France, 2004), Camera Austria n° 78 (2002), Missing Links (2001) and Hamra Street Project (Ashkal Alwan, Lebanon, 2000), Lamia Joreige (Janine Rubeiz gallery, Beirut, 1999), Surfaces, Lamia Joreige
(F.C.C. Beirut, 1997).

She is the author of two publications: Time and the Other (art book), Alarm Editions (Beirut, 2004) and Ici et peut-être ailleurs, (short fiction), H.K.W. (Berlin, 2003)

 
Sample Work
 

		Exhibition Views: Lamia Joreige 'A strange feeling of familiarity' November 21, 2007 - January 12, 2008 Exhibition Views (11 Images) < Click on Image for Exhibition Views
		Exhibition Catalogue: Lamia Joreige 'A strange feeling of familiarity' November 21, 2007 - January 12, 2008 Exhibition Catalogue (8 Images) < Click on Image for Exhibition Views
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