Pavilion of Lebanon

Former Birreria (Brewery) Deher on Giudecca island. On the right, the Hilton Molino Stucky Venice, a luxury hotel in a former mill and pasta factory

The exhibition Foreword brings together five artists whose work covers a range of artistic practices: personal narratives, acts of witnessing, collecting testimonies, and cutting through the veneer of political turmoil and historical events to get to the bone of intimate expression.

The artists commissioned for the Lebanese Pavilion come from different backgrounds, work in different media, and are at different stages of their respective careers. More than that, however, each in his or her own way questions the formation and experience of the self, individualism, and citizenship in ways that illuminate far beyond Lebanon's borders.

This exhibition in the first-ever Lebanese Pavilion presents five distinct yet related bodies of work that represent different attempts to answer a similar set of questions - all of which revolve around the broader question of where to begin.

From press information