Tuesday 4 June – Sunday 14 July 2013. Daily 24-hour. Vitrine Bermondsey Square London. ... A site-specific installation by Lebanese artist Raed Yassin, curated by Amanda Abi Khalil. ‘Noon’ is a series of eight photographs taken from different bedroom windows in Beirut by Y...assin between 2010 and 2011. Shown together with a new sound piece, they compose the site-specific installation entitled ‘Postponed Noon’, which transforms the connotations of both spaces: the square outside on the one hand and the space inside the vitrine on the other. Further information... vitrinegallery.co.uk/exhibitions/postponed-noon/ ... Supported by the British Council. Raed Yassin was born in Beirut in 1979. He has exhibited and performed his work in numerous museums, festivals and venues across Europe, the Middle East, the United States and Japan, including the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (2013), the Beirut Art Center (2013), the New Museum in New York (2012), Kalfayan Galleries, Athens (2011), Museum of Photography Thessaloniki (2011); ”Sharjah Biennial 10″ (2011), Delfina Foundation in London (2010-2011) where he has completed a residency program, “Manifesta 8″ in Murcia (2010-2011), Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (2011), De – Ateliers in Amsterdam following a 2-year residency, “Home Works 5″ in Beirut, (2010) and Photo Cairo 4 (2008). More information... vitrinegallery.co.uk/artist/raed-yassin/ Amanda Abi Khalil is an independent curator based in Beirut. At the Sorbonne, Paris, she studied art mediation, sociology, and cultural anthropology, graduating with an MA in Curating Art for Public Spaces. She has worked in leading cultural institutions in France such as “CENTQUATRE”, and “Aix-en-Provence International Opera Festival”. She was the director and curator of “The HANGAR” art space in Beirut until 2012 in which she has curated numerous exhibitions and installations with emerging and established international artists. She also teaches art history and sociology of arts at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA) and at the Saint Joseph University (USJ) in Beirut.
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