After Images
Overview
In After Images, the artist Ziad Antar experiments forms, colors and light with his lens-less camera, during a long journey searching for the cities where mythology was born. At the core of his work is the questioning of the foundations of photography, through the destructuration of this art.
About the Artist
Ziad Antar
Born 1978 in Saïda, Lebanon, Ziad Antar is a video artist and photographer. His work has been acquired by several public collections, including the Centre George Pompidou, the Fondation Louis Vuitton in France and the British Museum in the United Kingdom.
About the Authors
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968, Zurich, Switzerland) is Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries, London. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show World Soup (The Kitchen Show) in 1991, he has curated more than 300 shows.
Manal Khader
Manal Khader is a writer, editor and actress based in Beirut. She is one of the founders of Kalamon – a Beirut based cultural quarterly review – and co-editor of the publication from 2010 to 2015. Manal plays leading and supporting roles in Arab and international films and in 2015, she co-wrote and performed with Rabih Mroué a theatrical play entitled "Ode to Joy”.
Yahya Amqassim
is a writer and a graduate from King Saud University. He is the author of Stories from Saudi Arabia (2004) and The Crow Leg (2008). In 2010, Yahya was chosen by the Beirut39project as one of the best young writers from the Arab world. He is currently a foreign diplomat, and has served in the Saudi embassies in Paris and Beirut.
Yasmina Jraissati
holds a PhD in philosophy and cognitive sciences. Her research is driven by the relationship between culture and cognition, with a focus on perception. She namely specializes on color categorization at the interface of language and perception. Yasmina is a lecturer at the American University of Beirut.
Technical Details
- Publication Date:
- Tuesday, March 1, 2016
- Language:
- English
- Format:
- Hardcover
- Dimensions:
- 26.7x22.7cm
- Weight:
- 787g
- ISBN:
- 9789953035543
- Number of Pages:
- 140
- Publisher:
- Kaph Books
- Categories:
- The Arts
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