Egyptian - Lebanese artist Lara Baladi's creations - published and exhibited worldwide - range from photography, video, prints, digital visual montages, installations, architectural constructions, tapestries and even perfume.
Baladi has been a member of the Arab Image Foundation since 1997, directing magazine editorials and curating exhibitions and artist residencies. Since 2011, she works as cultural/Artistic curator and outreach director for Radio Ta7rir. She was awarded with the first prize (Grand Nile Award) at the Cairo Biennale 2008/09.
Baladi is an artist working essentially with reproducible images in various media and formats. Her installations, videos and collages, which often stage culturally hybrid scenes, are dense with mythology and visual theory. She addresses memory, both collective and personal, in a codified and multi-cultural language articulated in a world of shifting boundaries. Symbolic appropriations contribute to the construction of her numerous visual landscapes.
Born in Lebanon in 1969 of Lebanese-Egyptian origin, Baladi has lived in Beirut, Paris, London and Cairo, where she currently works and resides.
Her work has been exhibited internationally across the Middle East, the US, Japan and Europe, and is part of a number of contemporary art collections, including the Chase Collection in New York, the Fondation Cartier in Paris, the Museet for Fotokunst in Copenhagen and the Pori Art Museum in Finland.
She won the Grand Nile Prize at the 2008-09 Cairo Biennial for her project Borg El Amal.
Baladi received a fellowship from the Japan Foundation in 2003 following which, one of her large scale installations, Roba Vecchia, was created and shown in Cairo in February 2006, in Art Dubai and the Sharjah biennial in 2007 and in the Kennedy centre in Washington DC, in February 2009. In 2006, Baladi was commissiond to show a 20 screens/projections installation along one kilometer of seashore on the opening night of the Image of the Middle East festival in Denmark. The same year, Baladi initiated and directed Fenenin El-Rahhal, an “artists working summit” on the subject of ‘Territory’ in the Egyptian Western desert (www.nomadicartists.com).
She is a member of the Beirut-based Fondation Arabe pour l’Image. She has lived and worked in Cairo since 1997. Her work is represented
by the Townhouse gallery in Cairo, by la B.A.N.K. in Paris, by the Brancolini and Grimaldi gallery in Italy and by B21 gallery
in the Emirates.
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