Paola Yacoub

She worked at the Institut Français d’Archéologie du Proche-Orient in charge of the excavation's drawings in downtown Beirut from 1995 to 1999.

She developed her artistic production in Beirut in 2000 and started a collaboration with Michel Lasserre.

In 2001 and 2003 they were invited at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, and in 2004/2005, they received the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) artist's program fellowship.

Her works are in a number of public collections including FNAC, Paris; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes; FRAC Poitoux-Charentes; Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine/Mamco, Geneva among others.

Her photo-essays in collaboration with Michel Lasserre were anthologized in the publication Beirut is a Magnificent City: Synoptic Tables, published by the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona (2003) on the occasion of Contemporary Arab Representations, in which she participated, curated by Catherine David at the Barcelona Foundation, Witte de With, Rotterdam and BildMuseet, Umea.