Lara Baladi

Born in 1969, Beirut, Lara Baladi is an Egyptian-Lebanese artist, archivist and educator recognized internationally for her multidisciplinary works. Her artistic practice spans from photography, video, sculpture to architecture and multi-media installations. Informed by critical investigations into historical archives and the study of popular visual culture, Baladi’s work questions the theoretical divide between myth, memory, socio-political narratives and the cycles inherent to History.

Within her artistic practice, she is active in socially engaged projects. For more than twenty years, she has been on the board of directors of the Arab Image Foundation in Lebanon and the Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art in Egypt. Ongoing since 2011, her media initiative Vox Populi: Tahrir Archives, includes a series of media initiatives (Tahrir Cinema), artworks, publications and an opensource portal, Anatomy of Revolution, an ABC

Her work has been exhibited internationally at various spaces around the Middle East, the U.S., Japan and Europe, and is part of a number of contemporary art collections including the Fondation Cartier in Paris, the Museet For Fotokunst in Copenhagen and the Pori Art Museum in Finland. In addition to participating in the Sharjah Biennial, her installation ‘Roba Vecchia, The Wheel of Fortune’ was featured at the DIFC during the first Gulf Art Fair.