“Oro Terram” praising the earth is a counterpoint to the exhibition “Oro Tenebris”, praising to darkness at Galerie Tanit, Beirut. Listening, imploring the darkness, the body elevated between sky and earth, the night is the path leading to the light as black is to the center of the flame. Beiteddine Palace, Chouf, Lebanon Commissioned by...
This work was inspired by a coincidental encounter with a mysterious symbol engraved on a ruined stele in one of the Beiteddine palace gardens. It is a shape reminiscent of a sea shell or a sun with a central point. For the ancients, the radiance of the center is the base of the invisible and...
Institut du Monde Arabe, 1 Rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard, 75005 Paris, France
