Mondial 2010
Roy Dib
Galerie Tanit, Beirut
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- Title
- Mondial 2010
- Gallery
- Galerie Tanit, Beirut
- Year
- 2014
- Duration
- 19 min 30 s
- Format & Technical
Video
Mondial 2010 is a discussion of institutional borders in modern-day Middle East. It uses video as an apparatus to transgress boundaries that are inflicted on people in spite of them. It is a travel film in a trajectory that doesn’t allow travel, starring two male lovers, in a setting where homosexuality is a punishable felony. Shot with a hand-held camcorder, Mondial 2010 borrows the aesthetics of a travel video log. It normalizes the abnormal, and by doing so creates its own universe of possibility. It is a shift from the mainstream passive view of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict that places the victim/oppressor at the forefront of the produced imagery. This video glides over this conflict with an upper hand.
Note: The relations between Israelis and Lebanese are governed by the 1943 Lebanese Criminal Code and the 1955 Lebanese Anti-Israeli Boycott Law, the former of which forbids any interaction with nationals of enemy states, and the latter of which specifies Israelis, making a trip for a Lebanese citizen to Israel (or Palestinian Territories) impossible.
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Roy Dib, born in 1983, works and lives in Beirut. On both formal and conceptual levels, artist and filmmaker Roy Dib challenges common notions of space and boundary, weaving together archival material, scripted text and hypothetical circumstances to chronicle the political narratives of our day. His work was presented at Galerie Tanit (2018), MAXXI Museum (2017), Sharjah Biennial 13 (2017), ALFILM (2017), JCC (2016), Forum Expanded – 64th and 65th Berlinale, Exposure 2015 – Beirut Art Center, Uppsala International Short Film Festival (2014), Queer Lisboa (2014), Images Festival (2016) – Toronto, Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil (2013, 2015 and 2017), Ashkal Alwan (2014) – Beirut, Video Works (2011 – 2014) – Beirut. Awards Teddy Award for Best Short Film – Berlinale 2014 Best First Film – Lebanese Film Festival 2014 Inntravel Award – Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2014 Best Short Film – Queer Lisboa 2014 Uppsala Grand Prix 2014 Best Film Award – Sicilia Queer FilmFest 2015 Special Mention – Palermo Pride, Sicilia Queer FilmFest Award, Sicily 2015 19th Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil / Southern Panoramas’ Award 2015 Special Mention – Network of Arab Alternative Screens – NAAS – JCC 2016
Updated October 2020
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Galerie Tanit
- Address
- East Village Building, GF, Armenia Street, Mar Michael, Achrafieh, Beirut , Lebanon
- Phone
- +961 1 562812
- info@galerietanit.com
- Website
- www.galerietanit.com
Galerie Tanit was established in 1972. The program of the 1980/90ies focused on Minimal Art, Conceptual Art, and Arte Povera. The roster of the gallery – that temporarily had additional spaces in Brussels and Cologne – was later extended and exhibitions indicated a gradual shift from the program of the 1980/90ies to a younger generation of international artists. Since then, Galerie Tanit has been also representing artists with a Middle Eastern background. In 2007 Naila Kettaneh Kunigk opened an additional gallery in Beirut where she shows local and foreign artists with the intention to participate in the cultural and artistic revival of Lebanon. Based in the vibrant Mar Mikhael district, the gallery supports young Lebanese artists while maintaining a lively international program. Since its launch in Beirut, it encourages innovation with openness to the diversity of contemporary art, offering new experiences to the public. In the thriving local art scene, Tanit provides stimulating encounters with visual arts to build cultural bridges and open meaningful discussions.