Poetic Landscapes

From June 11, 2026 to July 9, 2026

Galerie Tanit, Mar Mikhael, Beirut, Lebanon

Ziad Antar, The Pink Mountain - After Images, Stories From the Mountains of Aseer Series, 2016, Inkjet print on photo paper, 126 cm x 126 cm, Edition 2 of 5

Since the dawn of Romanticism, our relationship with nature has been fundamentally rewritten. To the casual eye, a landscape may pass as unremarkable. However, when seen with emotional intensity, it awakens the sublime, that strange fusion of dread and wonder stirred by vast, untamed places. Romanticist poets knew this well. They turned landscapes into living verse, finding in nature not just beauty but a catalyst for the creative spirit. The humbling scale of a landscape fuels creativity, whether in literature or visual art.

This exhibition was born from the wake of political turmoil and the growing threat to landmass. It speaks to the sense of belonging to a place, and how that bond fades under the pressure of a fast paced lifestyle. The environment becomes overlooked, not out of malice, but by the seduction of the modern world, offering fleeting pleasures that leave little room for meditation upon the natural realm.

Each work in this exhibition is a silent poem. These artists do not write with words but with color and intense visual representations of nature. Some artists have even taken a more paradoxical approach. They depict the slow creep of urbanization not as progress, but as an encroaching shadow, a quiet loss of land that echoes the very tension of the sublime.

Piece by piece, the works become stanzas in an anthology of nature.