Ziad Abillama works and lives in Lebanon, a country rapidly disappearing like Venice under the waters of prejudice and ignorance.
Ziad was reborn in the U.S. during the first Gulf War in 1991. He returned to Lebanon in 1992 to confront and unsettle his uneasy belonging to a right wing Christian family. His early work consisting of installations and interventions may be considered as a relentless unlearning of his privileges.
Deceived by the over-politicization of Lebanese youth, he shrunk back from politics in art and returned from 1998 to 2003 to sculpture and design. But this soon appeared to be a dead end. If politicization of art is a problem, he now chose to deal with it instead of escaping it. These are the stakes of his involvement in video from 2003 to 2005.
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