"Artificial Landscape," a work by Tarek Haddad exhibited in the exhibition "As Close As It Gets" at the Tanit gallery in Beirut. (Photo courtesy of the artist and Tanit gallery)
Tarek Haddad's "As Close As It Gets," curated by Nicolas Marbeau and exhibited at Beirut's Tanit Gallery, offers an intimate photographic exploration of landscape, memory, and belonging. Since leaving Lebanon after the twin explosions at the Port of Beirut in 2020, the artist has been exploring the experience of distance, which transforms the way one sees a once-familiar place that has become inaccessible. Tarek Haddad explained to L'Orient-Le Jour how he deconstructs, moves, or recomposes photographs to explore the way “landscapes shape us as much as we transform them."The Lebanese sea and mountains, deeply embedded in a collective memory, thus become fragments of a territory he tries to recover in foreign spaces, never truly able to fully grasp it. Oscillating between image and material, appearance and...
Tarek Haddad's "As Close As It Gets," curated by Nicolas Marbeau and exhibited at Beirut's Tanit Gallery, offers an intimate photographic exploration of landscape, memory, and belonging. Since leaving Lebanon after the twin explosions at the Port of Beirut in 2020, the artist has been exploring the experience of distance, which transforms the way one sees a once-familiar place that has become inaccessible. Tarek Haddad explained to L'Orient-Le Jour how he deconstructs, moves, or recomposes photographs to explore the way “landscapes shape us as much as we transform them."The Lebanese sea and mountains, deeply embedded in a collective memory, thus become fragments of a territory he tries to recover in foreign spaces, never truly able to fully grasp it. Oscillating between image and material, appearance and...