Lebanese artist and writer (born 1966)
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 date.
Life and work.
Walid Sadek uses poetic and metaphoric language to evoke on post war Lebanon. In 1999, he produced "Bigger than Picasso" a tiny and unexpected book using word and image to criticize a political situation in the country.
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. He was guest editor of the academic journal "Third Text" on issue 117, July 2012, titled "Not, Not Arab".
Publications.
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.
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