Lebanon

 
 
Nadim Asfar - Habiter le jour
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Kaph Books
This publication gathers a series of photographs made during the artist's formative years. Between 2004 and 2008, Nadim Asfar photographed anonymous passersby from the balcony of his studio in Beirut. As faceless figures cast shadows under the hard city light, heading in undisclosed directions, their narratives are only announced, never told.
Lamia Joreige - Works - 1994-2017
2018
English edition
Kaph Books
The first monograph of the artist, looking back at 20 years of artistic practice through her variable projects: paintings and drawings, installations, films and videos. The publication gathers texts by Patricia Falguières, Rabih Mroué, and Ghassan Salhab, as well as interviews with Lamia Joreige by Etel Adnan, Kader Attia, Lav Diaz, and Charbel Habre.
Rayyane Tabet - Fragments / Bruchstücke
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Kaph Books
The book “Fragments”, designed by Lebanese artist Rayyane Tabet as an installation, coupled with a performance, is inspired by a family legend about Tabet's great-grand-father. The book accompanies an exhibition at the Kunstverein in Hamburg.
Jalal Toufic - E-flux journal - What Was I Thinking?
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - E-flux journal
In this treatise, Jalal Toufic investigates the arts as the privileged site of thinking and confronts his thoughts with texts taken from the traditional religions and mystics of the past.
Jumana Manna - Wild Relatives
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
Publication documenting an eponymous video work by the Palestinian artist, in which she follows the matrix of hierarchies and relationships involved in an agricultural transaction of seeds between a Norwegian town the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. This book includes an essay by historian Shela Sheikh and a text by the artist tracing the reflections that led her to her project.
Tarek Atoui - The Reverse Collection / The Reverse Sessions
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue documenting the Lebanese-born artist's eponymous project, which started as a sonic experimentation project with objects from the Dahlem Museum in Berlin. This work, which was later contucted at the kurimanzutto gallery in Mexico and at the Tate Modern, gave rise to various events and interventions, concerts and workshops.
These are the tools of the present - Beirut – Cairo
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This publication comprises a series of interviews with contemporary artists, musicians, and writers who are in dialogue with Beirut and Cairo.
 Oiseaux-Tempête - Al-\'An ! (And Your Night Is Your Shadow – A Fairy Tale Of Piece Of Land To Make Our Dreams) (CD)
2017
Sub Rosa
A musical portrait of contemporary Beirut, as part of a trilogy dedicated to the Mediterranean Basin: a rich and complex work, intertwining acoustic elements with electronica, with the help of local musicians.
Marwan Rechmaoui - Metropolis
2017
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
Inspired by Beirut's urbanism and cultural history, Rechmaoui's sculptures and installations reflect themes of urbanization and contemporary social and behavioral demographics. Including documentation, essays, and interviews, this illustrated monograph takes a look back at twenty years of work by one of the most important post­war contemporary artists from Lebanon and the region.
Gebran Tarazi - Twelve Seasons
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Zamân - Zamân Books
This monograph offers a sweeping vision of the work of Lebanese artist Gebran Tarazi, whose paintings combine geometrical abstraction with oriental identity. The publication gathers reproductions of paintings, multidisciplinary projects, a selection of writings by the artist—log books, novel excerpts, correspondences—interviews, and critical texts.
Rabih Mroué - Diary of a Leap Year
2017
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
In Diary of a Leap Year, Lebanese artist produces 366 daily collages from political newspapers in Lebanon and the Arab World, as a protest to the violence taking place in this region.
Ali Cherri - Somniculus
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
Filmed inside a series of empty museum galleries across Paris, Ali Cherri's Somniculus articulates the tension between the lives of dead objects and the living world that surrounds them—thus highlighting their ideological value. This publication accompanies and complete the Lebanese artist's video project.
Guillaume de Sardes - Beirut Round Trips
2016
English edition
Kaph Books
De Sardes' photographic wanderings in and around Beirut: an impressionist two-sided journey between day and night, dream and documentary.
Guillaume de Sardes - Retours à Beyrouth - Journal photographique
2016
French edition
Kaph Books
De Sardes' photographic wanderings in and around Beirut: an impressionist two-sided journey between day and night, dream and documentary.
Donatella Bernardi - Into Your Solar Plexus
2016
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This artist's book presents the sum of a multitude of journeys, people and stories collected and edited by Donatella Bernardi and stemming from her own family archives. The artist connects this whole documentation with works by Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair and her daughter Hala Schoukair, as well as with the Swiss Confederation Fine Art Collection.
Mathilde Rouxel - Jocelyne Saab - La mémoire indomptée
2016
French edition
various
(last copies available!)
The first monogaphic study dedicated to French-Lebanese filmmaker and photograph Jocelyne Saab and her works from 1970 to 2015.
Ziad Antar - After Images
2016
English edition
Kaph Books
Ziad Antar experiments forms, colors and light with his lensless camera, during a long journey searching for the cities where mythology was born. At the core of his work is the questioning of the foundations of photography, through the destructuration of this art (monograph edited in collaboration with Hans Ulrich Obrist).
 Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige - The Rumors of  the World - Rethinking Trust in the Age of the Internet
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This book traces the work and research of filmmakers and visual artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige and their exploration through their work of online spam e-mails, specifically, advance-fee frauds and scam messages.
 Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige - Les rumeurs du monde - Repenser la confiance à l\'âge de l\'Internet
2015
French edition
Villa Arson
This book traces the work and research of filmmakers and visual artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige and their exploration through their work of online spam e-mails, specifically, advance-fee frauds and scam messages.
Jalal Toufic - E-flux journal - Forthcoming – Second edition
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - E-flux journal
Second edition of Jalal Toufic's collection essays.
Akram Zaatari - Time Capsule, Kassel
2014
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A statement about speculation, photography, time and withdrawal.
Etel Adnan - Nous verrons bien
2013
French edition
WDPress / Éditions Moon Rainbow
(last copies available!)
First edition of Eugénie Paultre's Nous Verrons Bien. Etel Adnan has created the six drawings for this book.
 Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige -
2013
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph.
 Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige -
2013
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph (available in English edition).
Georges Ibrahim Abdallah - Collectif international pour la libération de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah
2013
French edition
Al Dante - History, theory & criticism / essays
Publication documenting the case of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah—founder of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions, imprisoned in France since 1984.
Hazem El Moukaddem - Panorama des groupes révolutionnaires armés français de 1968 à 2000
2013
French edition
Al Dante - History, theory & criticism / essays
(last copies available!)
An overview of French revolutionary armed groups from 1968 to 2000.
Peeping Tom\'s Digest - Beirut
2013
English edition
Peeping Tom's Digest
Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom's Digest
A mapping of the young Lebanese art scene.
Peeping Tom\'s Digest - Beirut (+ DVD)
2013
English edition
Peeping Tom's Digest
Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom's Digest
A mapping of the young Lebanese art scene (DVD included).
Akram Zaatari - Conversation avec un cinéaste israélien imaginé : Avi Mograbi
2012
French edition
BlackJack editions - Monographs & artists' books
15.00 9.00 €
An imaginary conversation between two filmmakers that evokes memories from the conflicts between Israel and Lebanon, and the way the memory and the testimony inevitably mix fiction and documentary (available in English edition).
 Suspended spaces - Suspended spaces - A Collective Experience
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
BlackJack editions - Catalogues
21.00 12.00 €
Suspended spaces #2 is a trip in the libanese territories. It develops artistical proposals and philosophical approaches of modernism in a middle eastern country.
Florent Meng - Préambule, Alinéa H
2011
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
Artist's book (limited edition of 350 hand numbered and signed copies).
Joumana Haddad - Miroirs des passantes dans le songe
2010
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A collection of texts with a feminist approach, in which Joumana Haddad tells about the life of female poets who committed suicide.
Sophie Ristelhueber - Operations (Luxury Edition)
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
Monograph accompanied by a signed and numbered print (1-25) from the "Beyrouth, photographs" series (1984).
Out of Beirut
2006
English edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
Work by artists emerging from Beirut today.
Beirut - The Eras of Design
2022
English edition
Kaph Books
sold out
The first retrospective on design in Lebanon, from the 1920s until today, includes works by over 50 designers, uncovering this major design scene in the Middle-East.
Fouad Elkoury - Passing Time
2017
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
sold out
The publication Passing Time by Fouad Elkoury looks back at 60 years (1960-2017) of photographs taken in Lebanon by the artist. Most of the images have never been published.
Fouad Elkoury - Passing Time
2017
bilingual edition (Arabic / French)
Kaph Books
sold out
The publication Passing Time by Fouad Elkoury looks back at 60 years (1960-2017) of photographs taken in Lebanon by the artist. Most of the images have never been published.
 Oiseaux-Tempête - Al-\'An ! (And Your Night Is Your Shadow – A Fairy Tale Of Piece Of Land To Make Our Dreams) (2 vinyl LP)
2017
Sub Rosa
sold out
A musical portrait of contemporary Beirut, as part of a trilogy dedicated to the Mediterranean Basin: a rich and complex work, intertwining acoustic elements with electronica, with the help of local musicians.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan - [Inaudible] - A Politics of Listening in 4 Acts
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Monographic study on the work of artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan on the perception of language, sound, and listening.
Akram Zaatari - A Conversation with an Imagined Israeli Filmmaker Named Avi Mograbi
2012
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
An imaginary conversation between two filmmakers that evokes memories from the conflicts between Israel and Lebanon, and the way the memory and the testimony inevitably mix fiction and documentary.
Sophie Ristelhueber - Operations
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
sold out
Luxurious retrospective monograph, conceived in close collaboration with the artist, with three essays, an illustrated and commented chronology, major works since the beginning of the 80s, as well as many documents and exhibition views.
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