Face to face: the photojournalist’s lens and the soldier’s gun — in Gina Nakhle Koller’s drawing, the image becomes a front line. (Credit: Courtesy of the artist)
An online symposium, organized by the Institute of Art in the Arab World, briefly brought together three artists across cities and time zones. Cameras on, cameras off. Cut, action. Yet the essential does not play out on the screen: it lies in what each person brings to it — years of distance, returns, interruptions, and this stubbornness to keep creating."The symposium is closely tied to a class I am currently teaching," explains Yasmine Taan, director of the Institute at the Lebanese American University (LAU). "It was designed to rethink the way we teach graphic design, not from imported models, but from our own stories, our visual cultures."Beyond the course, something more intimate emerges: three artists circling the same question, each from their own starting point — why return to drawing?Returning to...
An online symposium, organized by the Institute of Art in the Arab World, briefly brought together three artists across cities and time zones. Cameras on, cameras off. Cut, action. Yet the essential does not play out on the screen: it lies in what each person brings to it — years of distance, returns, interruptions, and this stubbornness to keep creating."The symposium is closely tied to a class I am currently teaching," explains Yasmine Taan, director of the Institute at the Lebanese American University (LAU). "It was designed to rethink the way we teach graphic design, not from imported models, but from our own stories, our visual cultures."Beyond the course, something more intimate emerges: three artists circling the same question, each from their own starting point — why return to drawing?Returning to...
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