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In 2008, I had the opportunity to collaborate with a fellow artist on a project titled Beyrouth: Baghdad, which was partly funded by the Goethe Institute and exhibited at the Mashrabia Gallery in Egypt. The Beyrouth: Baghdad project consisted of a one day workshop in Cairo with artists, film-makers, cultural workers and other art practitioners, as well as two video installations and several paintings. Thematically, the project explored the ways that cities (Beyrouth, Baghdad and Cairo) shape and transform each other through object, memory, body, and cityscape. As artists born in these cities, our work revealed private markers and established them as public entities. The result was a convergence of an imagined and contemporary Beyrouth & Baghdad. The exhibit in Cairo also initiated a multi-city social sculpture where individuals identified quotidian objects (found and produced) that define their relationships to all three cities.

Beyrouth: Baghdad project
Multi and mixed media installation: 2008
Dena Al-Adeeb and Youmna Chlala

Windmills and Giants Multi and mixed media installation
Video length: full 5 minutes
Sculpture Installation; site-specific-variable-sizes

Talk City to Me Video installation
Video length: 20 minutes

City Stilts Paintings
Charcoal, acrylic, crayon, ink, pencil; 1 x 1.5 meters