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DAC Beirut, Stone Garden project, Beirut (2026)

21/05/2026

Inside Salah Missi’s Beirut home studio, conversations moved between architecture, war, mythology, and what he describes as “a landscape trapped in cycles of death.”

For the cypress tree became both a symbol of immortality and a witness to generations of violence across the region.

🎥 Full interview coming soon.

19/05/2026

The Elephant & the Blind Men is an ancient parable: each blind man touches a different part of an elephant and insists he knows what it is. One feels the trunk and says “a snake,” one feels the leg and says “a tree,” one feels the side and says “a wall.” They’re all right. They’re all wrong. Truth is too large for any one person to hold completely.

paints it through Gibran Khalil Gibran. The figures on this canvas each grasp a fragment of something too large to hold: Lebanon, identity, grief, history.

Chapter III: The Elephant & the Blind Men After Gebran Khalil Gebran, 2024 on view at DAC.

13/05/2026

What if blood wasn’t about loss, but about life?

After traveling to 79 countries, Lebanese artist Sy created an installation built entirely from blood donations, where donors gave blood to help others live, posed for portraits, and wrote messages of peace.

“God was the first artist. Beauty is everywhere; it depends on how you choose to see it.”

Watch the full interview on YouTube → link in bio 🎥

11/05/2026

In Untitled (from the Prisoners series) (2024), Serwan Baran paints figures caught between movement and erasure. Rendered in layered shades of blue, the bodies begin to dissolve into one another, reflecting on war, survival, and the loss of individuality.

Having lived through the Iraq War and military service himself, Baran’s work often reflects on masculinity, power, trauma, and the human cost of conflict.

Currently on view at DAC.
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Untitled (from the Prisoners series), 2024
Acrylic on canvas

06/05/2026

On Martyr’s Day, we look back at a Beirut that no longer exists. Nabil Kanso’s 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙨 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙮𝙧𝙚𝙨 (1971–1974) is a series of over 300 ink and watercolor works documenting life in and around El Bourj. Once the beating heart of central Beirut and a historic crossroads since Ottoman times, Al Bourj was a place of commerce, movement, and a red-light district.

He spelled the title with an “e”, Martyres, meaning women in French. Intentional, as he explains: the women of the district were its true martyrs. When the plaza was obliterated in the civil war, it became one too. The title carries both losses.

— Nabil Kanso, Place des Martyres, 1971–1974 Ink and watercolor on paper

04/05/2026

When wrote “Steel for arm, not for arms,” it was a rejection of violence, and a reflection of his constant drive to bring the focus back to the human.

▶️Watch the full interview on YouTube

30/04/2026

Hanibal Srouji
𝙏𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙑𝙖 𝘽𝙞𝙚𝙣, 2012
Fire, acrylic on canvas

Srouji’s work moves through trauma as transformation. Using fire, carbon, and layered surfaces, he traces destruction while holding onto what remains: the right to dream.

30/04/2026

Hanibal Srouji
𝙏𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙑𝙖 𝘽𝙞𝙚𝙣, 2012
Fire, acrylic on canvas

Srouji’s work moves through trauma as transformation. Using fire, carbon, and layered surfaces, he traces destruction while holding onto what remains: the right to dream.

29/04/2026

Our doors are open.
Tuesday to Saturday, 11 AM – 5 PM.

Featuring works by:
Ayman Baalbaki
Fawzi Baalbaki
Katya Traboulsi
Hady Sy
Chawky Frenn
Abdul Rahman Katanani
Tagreed Darghouth
Hanibal Srouji
Marwan Sahmarani
Serwan Baran
Nadia Safieddine
Saïd Baalbaki
Yervant Hawarian

24/04/2026

April 24. Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.

For Missak Terzian, the genocide lives through what was told, carried, and imagined.
“These paintings are my mind,” he says. “A way of seeing what I did not live, but inherited.”

“Nothing changes. It’s always power, always resources. The same violence, different time. People destroying, looting, slaughtering, even smiling while they do it. What my grandparents saw in Armenia in 1915, I see today in Lebanon.”

𝙈𝙪𝙩𝙡𝙪 𝙏ü𝙧𝙠 (2015)
𝙔𝙚𝙜𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖 𝙄𝙄 (2010)
𝘼𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙡 24 (1979)

23/04/2026

Artist Highlight: Hady Sy is a conceptual artist who sees himself first and foremost as a humanist.

Working across sculpture and photography, his practice moves through questions of identity, existence, and what connects us.

Watch the full interview now on YouTube.

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