Walid Sadek

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 2020.

Life and work

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
  • 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

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

Group exhibitions
  • 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
  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. 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. 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. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  12. "Pavilion of Lebanon: Artists". Pavilion of Lebanon. 2007. 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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