Blackberry bush eats automobile: Douaihi carves ‘3rd space’ between architecture, arbour
With “Undergrowth,” her debut solo show at No/Mad Utopia, Ieva Saudargaite Douaihi uses photography and found objects to chart an imaginary ‘third space’ between the past and the present.
L'Orient Today / By Jim Quilty,
10 July 2025 17:12
BEIRUT — No/Mad Utopia, the gallery project launched last year by Marie-Mathilde Jaber, resides in an apartment block of mandate or early republic vintage. It is a fitting venue for its current show, “Undergrowth,” Ieva Saudargaite Douaihi’s debut solo.The well-known Lebanese-Lithuanian photographer has been showing her work in group exhibitions for a decade. Her photos have appeared in several publications and, in 2019, she released her own book, “Beirut, Naked City.” Her pieces are lodged in the collections of the Institut du Monde Arabe and the Fondation Boghossian. In 2022, she launched Takeover, an artist-led project space that marked two years at its Achrafieh location on July 8. In lit news... In her new book series, May Khodr introduces Lebanese children to their country's heritage To begin, the treesThe artist is best known...
BEIRUT — No/Mad Utopia, the gallery project launched last year by Marie-Mathilde Jaber, resides in an apartment block of mandate or early republic vintage. It is a fitting venue for its current show, “Undergrowth,” Ieva Saudargaite Douaihi’s debut solo.The well-known Lebanese-Lithuanian photographer has been showing her work in group exhibitions for a decade. Her photos have appeared in several publications and, in 2019, she released her own book, “Beirut, Naked City.” Her pieces are lodged in the collections of the Institut du Monde Arabe and the Fondation Boghossian. In 2022, she launched Takeover, an artist-led project space that marked two years at its Achrafieh location on July 8. In lit news... In her new book series, May Khodr introduces Lebanese children to their country's heritage To begin, the treesThe artist...
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