| A series of digital images printed on large format photo papers
based on the numerous agreements signed by the Lebanese State since
the independence of Lebanon. In order to obtain these images, the
artist uses the capacity of the computer to render the files containing
the texts of these agreements as if they were image files. The computer
calculated the binary code of each text file and generated the corresponding
image. The series comprises images of binary codes of texts such
as: the Doha agreement, the Taef accord, the Lebanon-Syria Treaty
of Brotherhood, Cooperation and Coordination, the tripartite agreement,
the Cairo agreement, the national pact, the Lebanese constitution,
as well as the word « Lebanon » itself. |
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VISITORS is an online artwork that has the form of a Web site.
A number shows how many persons have already visited the site since
its creation. This indicator is followed by a text in many languages,
signed by Ricardo Mbarkho. The
visitors can choose their prefered language as well as refresh the
site to see the number of visitors in each instant. |
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CONNECTED is an online artwork that has the form of a Web site.
A number shows how many persons are connected to the site at the
same moment. This indicator is followed by a text in many languages,
signed by Ricardo Mbarkho. The
visitors can choose their prefered language as well as refresh the
site to see the number of connected persons in each instant. |
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From November 8, 1999 to June 6, 2001, everyone who wishes to contact and to converse with Lebanese was invited by Ricardo Mbarkho, to enroll in the discussion list: LebaneseGroup. Today, this project is frozen and the discussions are suspended. Main topics of discussion: the socio-politics and the actuality of the day. |
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This
video questions the mobility of the Arameans in the Lebanese social
context; this is through the example of an Assyrian woman who has
undergone one of the explosions in Beirut. Since they moved from
Iraq, until their departure from Syria, are the Arameans who hold
their language and their religion pursued again by terrorism in
Lebanon? |
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More
than normal (Plus que normal) is a video that shows three couples
story that ends by a separation. 10 minutes of almost a total silence,
where no dialogue and no action take place, at a time when an unstable
equilibrium leads to tens atmosphere. Keywords
for this video would be: Desire, charm, wish, love, fear, fatal,
hopes, anger and separation. |
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A
trip from Paris to Juvisy is the context of a 52 min video. The
images that move horizontally with the train movements put us in
the beginning of the film in a Parisian landscape. This landscape
becomes a portrait after an accident that occurs during the travel
and a "smooth" plot catch the spectators for 52 min to
discover the climax at the end of the trail, at the end of the "unachieved"
trip. |
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In April 2001, a newsletter about a Tabbouleh
Day is sent by email to a large number of people who forwarded it to their address books as
well. It is about
a new celebration day each first Saturday of July: THE NATIONAL TABBOULEH DAY. Year after year, this event is gaining in crescendo a huge popularity
and it is now proudly practiced by a big part of the Lebanese (and
there friends) in Lebanon and abroad. |
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Exhibited
at:
LAA
Gallery, Verdun, Beirut, Lebanon. From June 20 to June 30,
2008 |
Exhibited at:
Sousse
Cultural Center, Tunisia. From October 9 to october 15, 2003
In the frame of "Les Journées Méditerranéennes
des arts plastiques de Sousse"
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Exhibited at:
Dawar el Shams (The Sunflower), Beirut, Lebanon. October 24, 2008, from 4pm till 6am
In the frame of "The White Night"
Sousse
Cultural Center, Tunisia. From October 9 to october 15, 2003
In the frame of "Les Journées Méditerranéennes
des arts plastiques de Sousse" |
Exhibited at:
In the frame of the Internet Fiesta 2000. Mars 2000
- Sénat, salle des conférences, 17 ter, rue Vaugirard, Paris 6ème, France
- La Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Espace Condorcet, 30 avenue Corentin-Cariou, 75930 Paris cedex 19, France
In the frame of ISEA 2000. From December 8 to December 20, 2000
Beyond the screen. Exhibition at the National Superior Fine Arts School - Paris
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Screened
at:
- INVIDEO Festival, Milano, Italy. November 14, 2008
-
21th Instants Video Festival, Marseille, France. November
2008
- Oslo Screen Festival, Oslo. Norway. October 2008
- LiteSide Festival, Westergasfabriek Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
22-23-24 August 2008
- LOOP'08 Festival, Barcelona. 6-18 May 2008
- International Festival Sarajevo Winter "Barricades
without borders", Video-Salon 3 at the galerie10m2, Sarajevo.
From 7 to 21 of March 2008
- transmediale.08, Berlin, Germany.
January 30, 2008
- Goethe-Institut, Beirut, Lebanon. October 29, 2007 to November
1, 2007 |
Screened at:
Goethe-Institut,
Beirut, Lebanon. Monday January 17, 2005 at 19h
1er
festival télé-jeunes en francophonie, Montréal,
Canada. From 5 to 8 october, 2004.
At
the Cinémathèque Québécoise,
Montréal
Festival
Signes de Nuit Paris on trip:
- Nuit Blanche 2005,
Les Voûtes, Paris, France. Octobre 1, 2005. From 7
pm to 7 am
- Le Cube, Issy-les-Moulineaux,
France. December 16, 2004 at 20h30
- European Film Festival, Turkey. 01-07
October, 2004 at Ankara / 08-14 October, 2004 at Bursa /
18-24 October, 2004 at Izmir
- Cinema Black Box (a part of the Düsseldorf
Film Museum), Düsseldorf. August 7, 2004 at 21:30
- Le Batofar, Paris, France. Thursday February
19, 2004 from 20h to 22h
INGAN
II, Berlin, Germany. 18 to 19 of september 2004
Festival
Signes de Nuit Paris, France. March 2003
Cinema
Balzac. Director Dieter Wieczorek
ENSBA,
Paris, France. May - June 2002
L'art
c'est secondaire. Exhibition Commissaire: Christian Bernard,
director of the MAMCO, Geneva
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Screened at:
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Back Stage, Beirut, Lebanon. Octobre 26, 2005 at 9 pm
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Espace SD, Beirut, Lebanon. November 11, 2004 at 7 pm
Ciné
Club
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ENSBA, Paris, France. May - June 2002
L'art
c'est secondaire. Exhibition Commissaire: Christian
Bernard, director of the MAMCO, Geneva
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Exhibited at:
Biennale de Paris. |
Exhibited at:
Ghislain
Mollet-Viéville, art agent, Paris, France. From July
15, 1999
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