Selected Exhibitions
17 th Istanbul Biennial
Uncertain Times-Mapping a transformation
Multimedia installation
Curatorial team: Ute Meta Bauer, Amar Kanwar and David Teh
The project Uncertain Times was developped thanks to a fellowship from Columbia University’s Institute for Ideas and Imagination
Uncertain Times – Mapping a transformation was selected by the patronage commission of La Fondation des Artistes, which gave it its support.
And the support of : the Istanbul Biennal Foundation IKSV & Centre national des arts plastiques
Researcher (Istanbul): Yildiz Yilmaz
Assistant Research (Beirut): Karen Murad
Graphic designer: Scope atelier – Tania Arwachan & Nadim Zablit
Lamia Joreige’s contribution to the biennial Mapping a transformation is the first installation to emerge from Uncertain Times, a project investigating the histories of the Middle East at the end of the Ottoman Empire. (1913–1920). For Istanbul, Joreige reinvents a historical frieze, assembling archival material ‑ personal diaries, letters, photographs and documents – with her own drawings and texts. From chronicles under Ottoman regime, to accounts on the circulation of grain and the famine, and stories on the rise of Arab nationalist movements, and the fate of Palestine and Greater Lebanon; her presentation unfolds the hopes and anxieties of a period of turmoil and transition, the consequences of which still reverberate in the region today.
17 th Istanbul Biennial
Curatorial team: Ute Meta Bauer, Amar Kanwar and David Teh
The project Uncertain Times was developped thanks to a fellowship from Columbia University’s Institute for Ideas and Imagination
Uncertain Times – Mapping a transformation was selected by the patronage commission of La Fondation des Artistes, which gave it its support.
And the support of : the Istanbul Biennal Foundation IKSV & Centre national des arts plastiques
Researcher (Istanbul): Yildiz Yilmaz
Assistant Research (Beirut): Karen Murad
Graphic designer: Scope atelier – Tania Arwachan & Nadim Zablit
Lamia Joreige’s contribution to the biennial Mapping a transformation is the first installation to emerge from Uncertain Times, a project investigating the histories of the Middle East at the end of the Ottoman Empire. (1913–1920). For Istanbul, Joreige reinvents a historical frieze, assembling archival material ‑ personal diaries, letters, photographs and documents – with her own drawings and texts. From chronicles under Ottoman regime, to accounts on the circulation of grain and the famine, and stories on the rise of Arab nationalist movements, and the fate of Palestine and Greater Lebanon; her presentation unfolds the hopes and anxieties of a period of turmoil and transition, the consequences of which still reverberate in the region today.