Cycles of Collapsing Progress was a month-long contemporary art exhibition that took place at the Rashid Karami International Fair in Tripoli, Lebanon; a public project designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in the 1960s and the Tripoli Roman citadel. The exhibition was divided into three thematic sections: Collapse of Modernism, Cycles of Nature and Socio-Historical Cycles. It presented 20 projects in total, including 11 commissioned artworks as well as 9 selected works by artists from Lebanon and Mexico. The meeting of these two art scenes