LAETITIA HAKIM & TAREK HADDAD
LebanonLaetitia Hakim and Tarek Haddad are Lebanese photographers whose joint practice is based on complementarity, duality, playfulness, and materiality. Their works stem from an ongoing conversation revolving around the actuality that marks them and the spaces they interact with and inhabit. They tackle notions such as forced separation, the perpetuity of loss, and the dynamics of social interactions, primarily dealing with Lebanon’s contemporaneity and the events that have been occurring since the October 2019 revolution. Their approach consists of stepping back, reflecting, and then responding to the events in question.
A stretch of water which they had conceived for the Togetherness exhibition at Galerie Tanit in 2021 has been exhibited at Au bords du monde vivent nos vertiges at the Abbaye de Jumièges in France in 2022, and at Tashatott at Kiosk, Gent, in Belgium in 2023.
They have received the Fondation Boghossian’s Visual Arts residency-award in 2022.
Laetitia Hakim is the 2022 laureate of the ‘les femmes s’exposent’ Lebanon prize in France, and an upcoming resident at the Cité des Arts, in Paris. Tarek Haddad is pursuing his master’s degree in photography at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles, and is currently an artist in residence with the Saradar Foundation in Lebanon. They have both pursued a B.A. in photography at NDU-Louaize Lebanon.
Courtesy Galerie Tanit, Beyrouth/Munich.
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