Exhibitions
Like Snow in the Middle of Summer
Exhibition by Rabih Mroué, curated by Lisa Deml
GRANOLLERS
Refugi Antiaeri
Carrer de Jaume Camp i Lloreda, 8
From October 10, to November 24
Schedule
October:
Morning/Noon (11:00 – 14:00): Sundays, October 13 and 27
Afternoon/Evening (17:00 – 20:00): Thursday, October 10 Friday, October 11 Friday, October 18 Saturday, October 19 Friday, October 25
November:
Morning/Noon (11:00 – 14:00): Sundays, November 10 and 24
Afternoon/Evening (17:00 – 20:00): Saturday, November 2 Friday, November 8 Friday, November 15 Saturday, November 16 Friday, November 22
Over the last 100 years, the skies have become more precarious, traversed by contested and often conflicting technologies, hegemonies, and ideologies. Like Snow in the Middle of Summer brings together works by Rabih Mroué that reflect on the embodied experience of aerial violence and its lingering aftereffects on urban and social fabrics. Working at the intersection of personal and political narratives, the artist’s oeuvre is intimately tied to the history of Lebanon yet resonates far beyond the region. Spanning theatre, visual arts, literature, and music, his body of work raises questions about the use of images, the strategies of storytelling, and the trustworthiness of memory and the accounts and documents that seek to capture it. The video essays, non-academic lectures, newspaper collages, archival records, and scripted confessions gathered in this exhibition unsettle established histories and past experiences to open up new perspectives, spin alternative narratives, and imagine futures with hope on the horizon.
Rabih Mroué
Rabih Mroué (Beirut, 1967) is an actor, director, playwright, visual artist. He is a contributing editor for The Drama Review/TDX He is also a co-founder of the Beirut Art Center (BAC), Beirut. He was a fellow at International Research Center: Interweaving Performance Cultures/FU/Berlin (2013 – 2015) and a theatre-director at Münchner Kammerspiele (2015-2019). Mroué’s works include Hartaqat (2023), Before falling Seek the assistance of your cane (2020), Borborymgus (2020), So Little Time (2017), Sand in the Eyes (2017), Rima Kamel (2017), Ode to joy (2015), Riding on a cloud (2013), The pixelated revolution (2012), The inhabitants of images (2008), Who’s afraid of representation? (2005), among others. He has performed and exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2015); SALT Galata and SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul (2014); CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid (2012–13); DOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany (2012); ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York (2010); and Centre Pompidou, Paris (2007); among others.
Lisa Deml
Lisa Deml (Munich, 1993) is an independent curator and writer based in Berlin. Initially trained as a journalist, she subsequently worked for cultural institutions and non-profit organisations, including Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, Haus der Kunst, Munich, and Ashkal Alwan, Beirut. Her texts have been featured in exhibition catalogues, such as Rabih Mroué: Interviews (ed. Nadim Samman, KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Hatje Cantz, 2022), as well as in journals, including Third Text, PARSE, and Critical Arts.