Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige were both born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1969. They collaborate as artists and filmmakers, creating thematic and formal links between photography, video, performance, installation, sculpture, and cinema. Over the last fifteen years, the duo has particularly focused on the fabrication of images andthe construction of imaginaries. Using personal or political elements to record stories that were stifled in prevailing history, Hadjithomas and Joreige explore the relationship between image and narrative. Their poignant, complex works are often intimate, established through conversations with various people they meet. Where sites have been transformed or demolished, particularly through war, Hadjithomas and Joreige's work provides a social memory for those affected, giving potency to the visible remnants. Applying a documentary approach to work that rewrites history raises questions about belief, fragmentation, transmission-bias, and who has the right to be the custodian of lapsed memories. Highlighting absence by documenting the tangible allows the artists to examine imaginary constructs and the contemporary corruption of image.

The Lebanese film-makers and artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige (1969, Beirut) interweave
thematic, conceptual and formal links through photographs, video installations, fictional films and
documentaries. Self-taught, they became film-makers and artists through necessity in the wake of the
Lebanese civil wars. Their very personal œuvre, based on their various encounters with people, has led them to explore the realm of the visible and of absence, leading to a fascinating back-and-forth between life and fiction. For more than fifteen years, their films and artworks, created using personal and political documents, develop narratives out of stories kept secret in the face of the prevailing history. They are interested in the emergence of the individual in societies made up of communities, and the difficulty of living in the present.

The Third Line

In Situ – Fabienne Leclerc

Marcel Duchamp Prize

Abraaj Capital Art Prize

Sharjah Biennale

Sharjah

Fototriennale Hamburg

Hamburg

Taipei Biennial

Taipei

Busan Biennial

Busan

Venice Biennial

Venice

Gwangju Biennial

Gwangju

Kochi-Muziris Biennale

Kodungallūr

La Biennale de Lyon

Lyon

Istanbul Biennial

Istanbul

Asia Pacific Triennial

Queensland

Beyrouth

Basel

Art Basel

Sharjah Biennial

Dubai

Milan

Galleria D’Arte Maggiore G.A.M.

Paris

Queensland Art Gallery

Sfeir-Semler Gallery

Gallery 103

Toronto

The Power Plant Gallery

Ashkal Alwan

Doha

Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art

Berlin

Gropius Bau

Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum Für Gegenwart

London

British Museum

Zürich

Migros Museum Für Gegenwartskunst

Vitry-sur-Seine

Musée D'Art Contemporain Du Val-De-Marne

Beijing

Today Art Museum

Institut des Cultures d'Islam

Red Brick Art Museum

Gam Milano

Centre Pompidou

Rome

Maxxi

Whitechapel Gallery

New York City

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Brussels

Villa Empain

Sursock Museum

Warsaw

Museum Of Modern Art Warsaw

Museum Of Modern Art

Deichtorhallen

Montpellier

La Panacée

Singapore

Singapore Art Museum

Tate Modern

Marseille

Friche Belle De Mai

Metz

Centre Pompidou Metz

Kuwait City

Contemporary Art Platform Kuwait

San Francisco

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Sfmoma)

Tokyo

Mori Art Museum

Nice

Villa Arson

Victoria & Albert Museum

New Museum of Contemporary Art

Beirut Art Center

Princeton

Princeton University Art Museum

Fondation Louis Vuitton

Frankfurt am Main

Frankfurter Kunstverein

Oxford

Modern Art Oxford

Copenhagen

Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Macro

Glasgow

Tramway

Karlsruhe

The Zkm

Rennes

La Criée centre d'art contemporain

Barjeel Art Foundation

Kadist

Chicago

Mca Chicago

Madrid

Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofía

Corte

Frac Corse

The Power Plant

Valencia

Instituto Valencia De Arte Moderno - Ivam

Sharjah Art Foundation

Jeu De Paume

Munich

Haus Der Kunst

MoMA

Gasworks

Musée D'Art Moderne De Paris

Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige

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Message with(out) a code III

Wonder Beirut #18

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