Marwa Arsanios

Marwa Arsanios is an artist, filmmaker and researcher from Beirut.

She reconsiders politics of the mid-twentieth century from a contemporary perspective, with a particular focus on gender relations, urbanism and industrialization.

She is currently a phd candidate at the Akademie der bildenden Kunst in Vienna.

Arsanios has had solo exhibitions at Skuc gallery in Lujubljana (2018) at the Beirut Art Center (2017); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016); Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2016); Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (2015) and Art in General, New York (2015).

Screenings of her videos have taken place at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2011, 2017); Berlin International Film Festival (2010, 2015); Copenhagen dox (2018).

In the past ten years, Arsanios has been looking at the material residues of violence (from architecture to books, magazines, ephemeras, to dance, an anthropological PhD thesis and most recently the appropriation of land into the sea through the material use of garbage and rubble and the financial profit made out of garbage).

In the past three years, Arsanios has been working at the intersection of land, ecology and feminism.

Her research moves between, on the one hand, political questions on the way ideological mechanisms permeate land, space, time, systems of justice and subjecthood, and on the other hand aesthetic thought that requires another kind of lens, an actual camera lens, a film set, a sound recorder and light, while searching for a few adequate positions from which to read the land, places, legalities and subjecthoods.

Marwa Arsanios medinaportal.com Gharavi, Maryam Monalisa; et al. (27 January 2014).