Jalal Toufic, artist and art
Born 1962, Birth Beirut, Lebanon.
The artist lives and works in Beirut.
2011 Sharjah Biennial Prize
Artist biography, artworks, statement, interview, review, exhibition:
Writer, film theorist, and video artist.
Ashura’; or, Torturous Memory as a Condition of Possibility of an Unconditional Promise
Walid Raad & Jalal Toufic:
The Withdrawal of Tradition
Past a Surpassing Disaster
Interview with the artist
The Lebanese artist Jalal Toufic investigates the multiple relations between language and culture and how culture deals with collective memory. As author, film theoretician, and video artist, he shifts smoothly between the media and their specific forms of expression, and is regarded as a representative of a new, intellectual art scene in Beirut. Many of his video works are concerned in a differentiated fashion with psychological or religious phenomena…
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