DAAD Grant Recipient Akram Zaatari

The Lebanese video artist Akram Zaatari, whose works have been shown at many international festivals and exhibitions, is currently a guest of the DAAD Berlin Artists Program. Zaatari's entire work is characterized by his dealing with the effects of the civil war. As a collector of images, sounds and objects, he brings to light the invisible history of his country in an archaeological manner and simultaneously examines the codes of representation and image-making in times of war. This reflection is accompanied by a fundamental questioning of the significance of documents. In addition to several works (August 27) dedicated in an aesthetically complex way to resistance in southern Lebanon during the Israeli occupation, Zaatari will present, as a Berlin premiere, his multilayered video essay THIS DAY (2003, August 29) dealing with the production and circulation of images and ideologies in the Middle East.