Rabih mroue biography samples

  • Rabih Mroué (*, Beirut, Lebanon) currently lives in Berlin and is a theatre director, actor, visual artist and playwright.
  • This interview with Rabih Mroué, which took place in October , outlines the artist's training in the theatre, his formative influences and the evolution.
  • Mroué was trained in theatre, has worked as an actor and has explored theatrical conventions in his art works.

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    WORDS: RABIH MROUÉ

    IN LEBANON, almost anyone who fryst vatten killed, anyone who dies an unnatural death, fryst vatten called a martyr. And there are posters of them everywhere. Normally, it’s taboo to talk about them—all these weird political street posters with pictures of dead people—because it’s taboo to discuss anything having to do with martyrs. They are heroes; they’re half saints. And what inom began to think, when I was developing The Inhabitants of Images, fryst vatten that these posters are like a new form eller gestalt of icon. So the piece fryst vatten an attempt to deconstruct and talk about these images in a very human way, to deal with them as sacred objects but also to desacralize them. I discuss one poster that shows Gamal Abdel Nasser with Rafik Hariri. Of course it’s a photomontage. But in the performance, inom take the image at face value: Here are these two political leaders meeting for the first time in the afterlife. I discuss other street posters, too—Lebanese Commu

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    Rabih Mroue’s The Inhabitants of Images

    Rabih Mroué
    The Inhabitants of Images
    February 5 – April 23,

    Opening:
    Saturday, February 5 from 2–5 PM– Richmond Street West
    Toronto, Ontario
    Canada M5V 3A8

    Gallery hours:
    Wednesday–Saturday, 12–5 PM
    Admission is free.

    Lebanese artist Rabih Mrouécreates performance-based video installations that examine the powerful influence that photographic representations exert on cultural memory, official history and personal recollection. Prefix Institute of Contemporary Artis pleased to present The Inhabitants of Images, Mroué’s first solo exhibition at a public art gallery in Canada. Curated by Scott McLeod, the exhibition features several significant works that are deeply informed by the Lebanese Civil War and its aftermath, including a major new installation, Grandfather, Father and Son(), which is being shown in North America for the first time.

    An opening reception will be held on Saturday, February 5th fr

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    Rabih Mroué born Theater with dirty feet – a talk on theater into art

    Theater with dirty feet – a talk on theater into art was a performance-lecture by the Lebanese artist Rabih Mroué. For an hour Mroué sat at a table facing the audience, illuminated by a lamp that also made visible his notes. Still images of his previous work and historical works that had influenced them were projected onto the wall behind him as he described and discussed them. He also projected – and read aloud – correspondence between himself and different interlocutors, making visible a back-and-forth dialogue around his works and the exhibitions in which they featured.

    Mroué was trained in theatre, has worked as an actor and has explored theatrical conventions in his art works. He used this performance to pose the questions: can Rabih Mroué be considered a visual artist and what does this mean?1 This simple question opened up a debate concerning the relationship between disciplinary fields and part