Roy Samaha
Biography:
Roy Samaha is a Lebanese artist born in 1978 in Beirut and lives there. Working with video and photography since 2002, he has exhibited in numerous film and contemporary art festivals. Between 1998 and 2008, he worked in Broadcasting TV industry as part of his field research on electronic media and altered states of perception.
He got his Masters degree in film studies at USEK, Lebanon. Currently, he is giving seminars on alternative video practices and film making in Beirut.
List of Works:
Residue 2014-2017
Revenant 2017
Landscape at Noon 2014-2016
A Book of 6 Directions 2015
Incarnation of a Bird from an Oil Painting 2013
A Secret of Secrets 2013
Transparent Evil 2012
Following, a Week in Cairo 2011
On an Empty Mind (Still Life/Moving Death) 2010
Missing Originals 2010
Please Rewind Me Later (Inheritance & Dispossession) 2007/2009
Video For the End of Time 2006
Pink White Green Black: Noise/Silence insinuated 2005
Untitled for Several Reasons 2003
Festivals & Exhibitions (Selection 2017-2003):
• From Sound to Silence, Galerie Tanit (Beirut)
• Too Early Too Late, Pinacoteca Nazionale (Bologna)
• Arab Avant-Garde: Reflections on Situated Time, microscope gallery (New York)
• Disobedience Archive, SALT (Istanbul)
• Lebanese Film Festival, Metropolis (Beirut)
• Rencontres Internationales, la Gaîté lyrique (Paris) HKW (Berlin) Spanish Cinematheque (Madrid)
• Unpainted, new media art fair, Post-Palace (Munich)
• Visual Arts Damascus, ZKM (Karlsruhe)
• Experiments in Arab Cinema: The Traveling Program, MOA (Vancouver)
• Disobedience Archive, Castello di Rivoli (Torino)
• Journey Through our Heritage, BEC (Beirut)
• Dream City, Marseille Provence (Marseille)
• Home Works 6, Ashkal Alwan (Beirut)
• Artissima 19, (Torino)
• Revolution Happened Because Everybody Refused to Go Home, Bureau Publik (Copenhagen)
• I Vespri, a Civic Forum in Five Acts, Laveronica Arte Contemporanea, (Sicily)
• Disobedience Archive, Bildmuseet (Umea)
• Image Counter Image, Haus der Kunst (Munich)
Artists of the Gallery
Youssef Abdelke
Adel Abidin
Shirin Abu Shaqra
Abed Al Kadiri
Mojé Assefjah
Martin Assig
Michael Biberstein
Sonja Braas
Ricardo Brey
Franck Christen
Roy Dib
FOUAD ELKOURY
Elger Esser
Simone Fattal
Chafa Ghaddar
Gilbert Hage
Herbert Hamak
Joumana Jamhouri
David Kramer
SADIK KWAISH AL FRAJI
Urs Lüthi
Rania Matar
Randa Mirza
Kevork Mourad
Charlotte Mumm
Serge Najjar
Samia Osseiran Jumblatt
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Giulio Rimondi
Walid Sadek
Charles Sandison
Nada Sehnaoui
Bongchull Shin
Catharina van Eetvelde
Stephen Waddell
Fadi Yazigi
Kimiko Yoshida
Ghassan Zard
Cynthia Zaven