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Aspiring visual artists and film makers across Qatar and elsewhere can mark their calendars for an exciting learning experience. Renowned Lebanese artist and film producer Akram Zaatari — whom UK's The Guardian newspaper referred to as 'one of the foremost artists still living in the Arab region — will be the next presenter in the Wavelength lectures series, on Tuesday at 8pm Doha time. During the lecture — a collaboration between Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar (VCUarts Qatar), a Qatar Foundation partner university, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, and Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Contemporary Art — Zaatari will discuss his major works of the last 15 years, addressing some of the crucial questions informing his approach to video, photography and the politics of documentary representation.
Zaatari and his film Letter to a Refusing Pilot represented Lebanon at the prestigious Venice Biennial in 2013. Some of his more recent solo exhibitions include The Script, Modern Art Oxford; Photographic Currency, La Vitrine, Beirut Art Residency, Beirut; Akram Zaatari, Turner Contemporary, Kent, UK; Against Photography. An annotated history of the Arab Image Foundation, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; and Letter to a Refusing Pilot, Modern Museet, Malmö.
His creative productions have found places of prominence at the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; K21 Dusseldorf; MACBA, Barcelona; MoMA, New York; Serralves Foundation, Porto; Tate Modern, London and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Closer to home, the Lebanese artist is the co-founder of the Arab Image Foundation, and has played a crucial role in developing the formal, intellectual, and institutional facets of Beirut's contemporary art scene.
He has also made invaluable contributions to various discussions focused on preservation and archival practice. The lecture will be moderated by Noah Simblist, Associate Professor and chair of Painting and Printmaking, at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, Richmond.
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