Walid Sadek

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Walid Sadek (born in Beirut, Lebanon, 1966) is a Lebanese artist and writer. He is a professor at the Department of Fine Arts and Art History of the American University of Beirut, and held its chairmanship from 2017 to date.

Life and work[edit]

Walid Sadek uses poetic and metaphoric language to evoke on post war Lebanon.[1] In 1999, he produced Bigger than Picasso a tiny and unexpected book using word and image to criticize a political situation in the country.[2]

Sadek, who has regularly collaborated with Beirut-based artist centre Ashkal Alwan, has participated in numerous exhibitions and events worldwide. In 2010, he presented his first solo exhibition at the Beirut Art Center.[3] He was guest editor of the academic journal Third Text on issue 117, July 2012, titled "Not, Not Arab".[4]

Publications[edit]

  • Fi annani akbar min Picasso (bigger than Picasso), (Beirut, Ayloul Festival, 1999)
  • Al-Kasal [Indolence] with Bilal Khbeiz (Beirut: The 3rd World, 1999)
  • The Ruin to Come, Essays from a protracted war (Motto Books, Taipei Biennale, 2016)[5]

Collected essays, written in Beirut over a period of 10 years between 2006 and 2016, look at the conditions of living under a temporality theorized as the "protracted now" of a civil war, one structurally capable of perpetuating the conditions of its own dominance.

Selected exhibitions[edit]

Solo exhibitions[edit]

  • Place at Last Walid Sadek, Beirut Art Center, 2010[6]
  • Walid Sadek '"On the labour of missing", Galerie Tanit, Beirut, 2012[7]

Group exhibitions[edit]

  • Ashkal Alwan – Hamra Street Project, Beirut, 2000[8]
  • Contemporary Arab Representations, Beirut/Lebanon, Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2002 [9]
  • Home Works III – A Forum of Cultural Practices, Beirut, 2005[10]
  • Out of Beirut, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, 2006[11]
  • Foreword, Pavilion of Lebanon, 52nd Venice Biennale, 2007[12]
  • Home Works IV, Galerie Sfeir Semler, Beirut, 2008[13]
  • Lebanon Now, Darat al Funun, Amman, 2008[14]
  • The 4th Auckland Triennial, Auckland, 2010 [15]
  • Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot for a Biennial, Sharjah, 2011[16]
  • Seeing is Believing, KW Berlin, 2011[17]
  • Home Works 6 Exhibition, Artheum, Beirut, 2013[18]
  • Unnamed exhibition with Gheith Al-Amine, Aissa Deebi, Bassam Kahwagi, Jacko Restikian and Shawki Youssef, Galerie Tanit, Beirut, 2014[19]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Walid Sadek". Auckland Triennial. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  2. ^ "Word and Image in Contemporary Book Art in Lebanon: Walid Sadek's "Fi annani akbar min Picasso"". Orient-Institut. 2008. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  3. ^ Jim Quilty (April 19, 2010). "Walid Sadek: Place at Last". Art Review. Archived from the original on 16 December 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  4. ^ "Third Text. Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture". Third Text. July 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
  5. ^ "The Ruin to Come, Essays from a protracted war". Motto Books. 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  6. ^ "Place at Last Walid Sadek". Beirut Art Center. 2010. Archived from the original on 29 May 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  7. ^ "Galerie Tanit – Walid Sadek". Galerie Tanit. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
  8. ^ "Ashkal Alwan – Hamra Street Project, 2000". Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa). Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  9. ^ "Contemporary Arab Representations, Beirut/Lebanon". Witte de With. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  10. ^ "Home Works III". Ashkal Alwan. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  11. ^ "Out of Beirut". Modern Art Oxford. 2006. Archived from the original on 18 June 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  12. ^ "Pavilion of Lebanon: Artists". Pavilion of Lebanon. 2007. Archived from the original on 31 January 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  13. ^ "HOMEWORKS IV". Sfeir Semler. 2008. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  14. ^ "Art Now in Lebanon. Curated by Andree Sfeir Semler". Darat Al Funun. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  15. ^ "The 4th Auckland Triennial". Auckland Triennial. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  16. ^ "Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot for a Biennial". Sharjah Art Foundation. 2011. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  17. ^ "Nafas / Seeing is believing / Images". Nafas Art Magazine. September 2011. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  18. ^ "HOME WORKS 6 EXHIBITION – CURATED BY TAREK ABOU EL FETOUH". Ashkal Alwan. May 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
  19. ^ "Galerie Tanit & Naila Kettaneh Kunigk invite you to an Art Exhibition by Gheith Al-Amine, Aissa Deebi, Bassam Kahwagi, Jacko Restikian, Wali". Lebtivity. 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
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