For the first time ever, the UNESCO World Heritage site of Baalbek, Lebanon, hosted a contemporary art exhibition within its museum and archaeological sites, most notably Bacchus, the largest standing Roman temple.
The exhibit centered on the importance of on-site museums, exploring, within the context of Baalbek, how monuments and artefacts become symbols of an obsolete past, victims of iconoclasm, and subject to destruction during war.
In collaboration with Studiocurart, a nomadic curatorial platform, we studied, designed, and executed the scenography of the project, which included the spatial layout and lighting for all the selected installations and artworks by nine artists: Ai Weiwei, Marwan Rechmawi, Cynthia Zaven, Ziad Antar, Laurent Grasso, Theo Mercier, Paula Yacoub, Susan Hiller, and Danica Dakic.
