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What Representations? sees Beirut-based artist Marwa Arsanios critically engage
with Contemporary Arab Representations, a project series initiated by former
Director Catherine David at Witte de With from 2001 onwards to explore and
present the activities of cultural and intellectual actors across the Arab world.
Arsanios specifically addresses the exhibition titled Contemporary Arab
Representations Beirut / Lebanon (2002) that contributed to the formation of a
‘canon’ of art with a focus on practitioners emerging post-war, whose work
typified David’s characterization of Beirut as the archetypal …