• Scene I

    Scene I, 2023. 80x60cm. Oil, acrylic and charcoal on linen. Image courtesy of the artist and Art Design Lebanon.

  • Threshold

    Threshold 15, 2018. Ink on Statuario marble. 70x30x30cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Letitia Gallery.

  • Slumber's Tongues 18

    Slumber's Tongues 18, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and Art Design Lebanon.

  • Vicarious Dreams

    Vicarious Dreams, 2011. Part of 'Intimate Garden Scene (in Beirut)' at Sursock Museum. Etching and drypoint on cotton paper. Image courtesy of the artist.

  • Brazil

    Brazil, 2017. Site-specific intervention for La Vitrine, Beirut Art Residency. Image courtesy of the artist and La Vitrine.

Hatem Imam (Lebanon/Palestine) explores the ways in which we use representation to negotiate a relationship with place. Through painting, printmaking, installation, and sound, his work looks at the space and materiality of dreams, and constructs scenes in which desire, shame, pleasure, and guilt collide. In his works, the landscape is a starting point; his works foreground their own materiality, understanding these materials as being lifted from one landscape and being shaped and reformed into another.

During his time at Delfina, Hatem will delve into the extensive history of the British fascination with natural spaces and landscapes, and the latent power structures that drive it. He plans to explore the institutional collections of old master paintings and prints and undertake critical research into art history.

Hatem co-founded the design agency Studio Safar and the design and visual culture magazine Journal Safar. Safar means ‘travel’ in Arabic, and its focus is on inter-disciplinary and inter-cultural forms of communication, and aims to acknowledge designers from the global south as active agents of cultural production. He is also one of the co-founders of the Samandal comics collective, as well as the artistic director of the Annihaya record label in Beirut and a guest DJ on Radio AlHara. He has taught design and printmaking at the American University of Beirut since 2007.

Hatem was born in Saida, Lebanon. He now lives and works in Beirut.

With support from:

Art Design Lebanon

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