Courtesy Ziad Antar
| Date: | Tuesday, 15 May 2012 |
| Time: | 18:30 – 20:00 |
| Venue: | The Showroom |
Ziad Antar and Jessica Morgan (The Daskalopoulos Curator, International Art, Tate) will discuss the artist’s photographic work and his recent book Portrait of a Territory, produced during a residency with Sharjah Art Foundation.
Biography
Lebanese artist Ziad Antar has been working with photography and video since 2002 when he directed his first documentary on the French photographer Jean-Luc Moulène. He has made several documentaries for the Arabic news channel al-Arabiya. Antar’s work has been shown in numerous exhibitions including The Mediterranean Approach and The Future of a Promise, Venice, Italy (2011), Sharjah Biennial 10 (2011), the New Museum, New York (2009), the Cittadellarte, Pistoletto Foundation, Biella, Italy (2009), Sharjah Biennial (2009), Tate Modern, London (2008), the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2006) La Cabane, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2005) and the Taipei Biennial, Taiwan (2008). He was nominated for the Ukrainian Pinchuk Foundation’s Future Generation Prize in 2010. Ziad Antar was born in 1978 in Saida, Lebanon and now lives and works between Paris and Beirut.