Gilbert Hage - Galerie Tanit · Untitled. 220 x 282 cm . edition of 3. Untitled. 220 x 282 cm . edition of 3. Untitled. 220 x 282 cm . edition of 3. Screening Berlin Each year, as

Gilbert Hage

BIOGRAPHY Gilbert Hage is a photographer. He lives, teaches and works in Lebanon.

His photographic projects include: 2011 I Hated You Already Because of the Lies I Had Told You2011 Why Do We Feel Like Kafka?2009 Eleven Views of Mount Ararat2008 Smoking Area2008 Strings (aka With Strings Attached)2007 Pillows 2006 Screening Berlin 2006 242 cm2 2006 Homeland 1 (aka Toufican Ruins)2006 Phone [Ethics] 2005 Here and Now 2004 Beirut 2002 Anonymous 1999 Roses 1997 Le Sentier Des Douaniers

He is the co-publisher and co-editer, with Jalal Toufic, of Underexposed Books.

'' What I have, all along, tried to do in my photographic work, initially in an obscure approach but increasingly in a deliberate manne, is to convey the present without ending up having only done a report of facts or even of events; as well as to imagine the future without falling back on speculations based on assumptions.''

- Gilbert Hage

CVExhibitions

2015 Beirut Exhibition Center 2014 Paris Photo 2014 Galerie Tanit - Beirut 2014 Art 14 London – London 2013 Paris Photo 2013 Galerie Tanit - Beirut 2013 Art 13 London – London 2013 Arts Santa Monica – Barcelone 2013 Katara – Doha2012 Galerie Tanit - Munich2012 Fomu - Anvers2012 Espace Naila Kettaneh Kunigk - Beirut 2011 Subtitled-Royal College of Art - London 2011 Thessaloniki Museum of Photography - Thessaloniki 2011 Paris Photo2011 Rencontres d’Arles - Arles 2011 Sharjah Biennial - Sharjah 2010 White Box - Munich 2010 Paris Photo2010 Centre Culturel Français - Beirut 2009 Kunsthal_Rotterdam2009 Espace Naila Kettaneh Kunigk - Beirut2009 Espace Naila Kettaneh Kunigk - Beirut 2007 Kunsthalle - Vienne- Autriche2007 Casa arabe- Madrid - Espagne 2007 Institute of contemporary art - Dunaujvaros - Hungary 2006 University of balamand - Lebanon 2006 Arabise me - V+A Museum - London 2006 Modern Art Oxford - Oxford 2005 Saifi village - Beirut 2005 Haus der Kulturen der Welt - Berlin 2005 FIAC2004 Espace SD - Beirut 2004 Galerie Alice Mogabgab - Beirut 2004 Galerie Tanit - Munich 2004 Mantes la jolie - France 2003 Vidéo Brazil - Sao Paolo 2002 Galerie V+A - Berlin 2002 Tacheles - Berlin 2002 Galerie Alice Mogabgab - Beirut 2000 Le jardin des possibles - Lyon 1999 Galerie Alice Mogabgab - Beirut 1998 Institut Cervantès - Damascus 1997 Library El Assad - Aleppo 1989s Centre Culturel Français - Jounieh

Publications

2011 I Hated You Already Because Of The Lies I Had Told You2011 Eleven Views Of Mount Ararat2008 With Strings Attached 2007 Ana, Berthe, Emmanuelle... 2007 Ana, Berthe, Emmanuelle... 2006 Screening Berlin 2006 242 square cm2006 Toufican Ruins2005 Here and Now 2004 Beirut (2004)1999 Roses

Portrait of Gilbet Hage

Anonymous

Being anonymous. Anonymous beings.Living in a dream promising immediate fulfillment.Besieged by objects and capitalist culture, which seems to be near and yet so far.Frustrated by their belongings and obsessed by their promises.These same beings are driven to become fragile and vulnerable.They are alienated thus marginalized by society.Anonymity is the daily life.I intended to ward off ill fortune and reality by pulling out a thing from daily life.

Anonyms 2 . 39x39 cm . Edition 1 of 5 + 2 AP





Eleven Views of Mount Ararat- by Jalal Toufic Referring in its title to the famous series « Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji » bythe Japanese artist Hokusai, which was later augmented to fourty -six prints and which was produced between 1826 and 1833 ,Gilbert Hage›s Eleven Views of Mount Ararat (2009) depicts another preeminent mountain , one also viewed by many as sacred, this time it appears in the context of various houses of members of the Armenian community of Lebanon.

Could Hage have made a book with thirty-six views, if not fourty-six views, of mount Ararat?

Not at this historical point; Hage›s book implies, intertextually and symptomatically, an absence, one that cannot be alleviated simply by photographing additional appearences of the mountain (in paintings, drawings, postcards, etc...) by visiting more interiors (in fact, Hage did photograph more than eleven such instances, as is indicated on the acknowledgements page of his book, but he justly did not include them in the book).

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Toufican Ruins?Judging by the title of this book Toufican Ruins?, Gilbert Hage wonders whether any of the buildings that appear in the photographs he took in Beirut's southern suburb in the aftermath of the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon are ruins - in the sense Jalal Toufic gives tp this term in his essay «Ruins:, which is reprinted in the same book.In case some of them are ruins, what will happen when they are reconstucted?Toufic: '' I predict that when war-damaged buildings have vanished from Beirut's scape, some people will begin complaining to psychiatrists that they are apprehending even reconstucted buildings as ruins.While the imagination of desaster for a city such as Los Angeles, which has not already been reducted to ruins, is that of its destruction, exemplarily in an earthquake, for Beirut it is fundamentally that of its revelation when reconstructed as still a ruined city.''





Screening Berlin

Each year, as tourist vacationers, tens of millions of humans yield to an extra conditioning: they follow the directives of a guide, the rhythm of a group, and are instructed cursorily in the doxa on various countries turned venues.

Under the pretext of anticipating their needs, desires, and even their whims, they are dissuaded from and independent choice.

In a sightseeing boat during a guided tour of Berlin, Gilbert Hage resisted - while fixed to his seat - by means of photography the concomitant insidious screening of Berlin.The result, screening Berlin, is a number of moving encounters in the form of chance compositions of lanscapes and people.

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Untitled. 60 x 70 cm . Edition of 5

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Documents

Gilbert Hage - Galerie Tanit · Untitled. 220 x 282 cm . edition of 3. Untitled. 220 x 282 cm . edition of 3. Untitled. 220 x 282 cm . edition of 3. Screening Berlin Each year, as