Letter to A Refusing Pilot
A survey exhibition of Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari
SALT will be hosting an exhibition by Lebanon-born, Beirut based artist Akram Zaatari. Largely known for his works based on collecting, studying and archiving the photographic history of the Arab World, Zaatari is the co-founder of the Arab Image Foundation (Beirut, 1997) and has been examining how photography has shaped notions of aesthetics, and social codes.
The Uneasy Subject, 28 Nights and A Poem, and Earth of Endless Secrets and Time Capsule, are amongst the works of the artist that will be exhibited at SALT Beyoğlu starting December 3.
A comprehensive body of work encompassing videos (including his most recent video Beirut Exploded Views- 2014 where in a city post-apocalypse, people are able to communicate only through gestures and smart devices), photography and installation produced by the artist since 1998 will be shown in SALT Beyoğlu, with a different theme on each floor. The first floor is dedicated to Zaatari’s work on the act of excavation as a metaphor for concealing and revealing artifacts, namely archeology and whatever its opposite could be. The space opens with a display of Zaatari’s research on Osman Hamdi Bey’s excavation in Saida in 1887.
Letter to A Refusing Pilot
His video work titled Letter to a Refusing Pilot (Zaatari conducts both an investigation and a stirring tribute to an act of resistance that marked his childhood memories: the refusal of an Israeli pilot to bomb a boys’ high school on June 6, 1982 in South Lebanon) will be shown on loop from 17.30 every day December 3-7 in the Walk-in Cinema at SALT Beyoğlu.
Exhibition: December 2, 2014 – February 15, 2015
SALT Beyoğlu
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All pictures were taken by SALT