A comprehensive guide to the monumental, immersive installation created by Nabil Nahas for the Lebanese Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale.
Through a series of chapters, the catalog of the Lebanese Pavilion at the 2026 Art Biennale examines the multiple dimensions of Don't Get Me Wrong, a monumental and immersive installation by artist Nabil Nahas. It addresses the aesthetic and philosophical issues at stake and offers keys to understanding a work that invites contemplation, introspection, and meditation. Conceived as an extension of the exhibition, the publication contextualizes the pavilion's scenography and its dialogue with space, and brings together a set of scholarly essays that situate the installation in the context of contemporary art and art history.
Nabil Nahas (born 1949 in Beirut) is a Lebanese-American artist celebrated for his three-dimensional, multi-layered paintings marrying geometry and nature and bursting with vivid color and texture.
Nabil Nahas's work is in several international museum collections, including Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar; Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Tate Modern, London; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville; Portland Museum of Art...
Edited and introduced by Nada Ghandour.
Texts by Nada Ghandour, Olivia Bourrat, Emilia Philippot, Jean-François Charnier, Nicolas Fayad, Charles Kettaneh.
