Tomorrow at Orient-Institut Beirut, Dr. Nadia von Maltzahn is presenting a digital project we have worked on in the past months. The project is the digital output of a larger research project called LAWHA (Lebanon’s Art World at Home and Abroad: Trajectories of artists and artworks in/from Lebanon since 1943).
The platform has been developed as a central component of LAWHA to interrelate context and artistic production, constituting both a tool and open-access repository for future research. The platform is guided by LAWHA’s main research questions, in particular the question of the professionalization of Lebanon’s art sector in the second half of the twentieth century and the forces that have shaped it (including exhibitions, institutions and criticism), as well as to document the trajectories of artists and some of their works.
More info soon.