About

Galerie Tanit is celebrating fifteen years in Beirut with a group exhibition titled Crossed Perspectives. The unique
exhibition format is the result of a survey sent to the gallery’s roster of artists, asking them which artistic, literary, or filmic
works shown in Lebanon marked or transformed their practice over the past fifteen years. The survey was based on
philosopher Alain Badiou’s idea of the artwork as an event. The event, Badiou explains, exerts a form of violence upon
those who experience or suffer it (Badiou, Being and Event, 1988). This violent irruption is also an eruption, a breach in