Marie Muracciole
Wednesday 4 December 2024
7pm

Between 2014 and 2019 Marie Muracciole was head of Beirut Art Center in Beirut, Lebanon. She entitled her curatorial program Present times. Ourselves, quoting from a page in Virginia Woolf’s last book, Between the Acts. Exhibitions, talks, screenings, public conversations, workshops were about sharing the actual moment the people of this town were going through.

She will talk about the context of Beirut and about her project – how it went wrong or well. And about artists dedicated to inventing new languages of time in order to provide the experience of their time. Like the work of Majd Abdel Hamid, the works of some artists that are not activists excavate a relation to truth that is not a myth (i.e. a story that builds explanations from facts). It builds out of literal, and often tense, confrontations between the viewer and their experience of the present. And, it brings a way to include art in our lives as an experience of freedom, and as a way to value the unforeseen.

Marie Muracciole is an art critic, writer, and independent curator based in Paris.

The talk will be held in English.