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Nadim Asfar (born in 1976 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a French-Lebanese photographer and filmmaker. He currently lives and works between Paris and Beirut. He studied cinematography at the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts ALBA Beirut and then photography at the École Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière (Paris) before engaging in the theory of arts and languages at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

Work

The artistic approach of Nadim Asfar is strongly influenced by the numerous questions raised by the language and technique of photography. His photographs and films attempt to capture his relationship to the outside world.^[1] Interrogating the relationships between apparatus, body and space, he produces works that explore time and space, whether in the interior, intimate realm of the house or in the wide expanses of natural landscapes. Stemming from a background that is both experimental and theoretical, his approach is at the meeting of considerations that are visual and acoustic, poetic and aesthetic, philosophical and anthropological.^[2]

He presented his first solo exhibition “Juin” at Fadi Mogabgab Gallery (Beirut), in 2004.^[3] In 2005, he was part of "Regards des photographes arabes contemporains", a collective exhibition of Arab photographers at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris.^[4] He showed a comprehensive selection of works in “Immaterial World”, organized in 2008 by Naila Kettaneh Kunigk and Sandra Dagher.^[5] In 2009, his project Innenleben was selected in Exposure, the Beirut Art Center’s first annual presentation of emerging artists. The same work was published in the Issue 20 / Talent of Foam Magazine^[6] and later on presented in Galerie Tanit's booth at Paris Photo.

A popular series is the Constellations. Each piece is a grid composition of a varying number of pictures Nadim Asfar shot from the balcony of his apartment in Mar Mkhayel, Beirut. This work was exhibited at Galerie Tanit, Paris Photo and the FFA headquarters.^[7] He later reclaimed this work in 2018 in the form of an artist’s book, “Habiter le Jour”, focusing on the gestures, postures and stilled movements of anonymous passersby and on the passage of cars, motorcycles, trucks and other vehicles.^[8]

Also in 2018, Nadim Asfar published another photographic book presenting an array of images of flowers and diverse plants that he had taken in his early career using the photogram technique which is a camera-less technique that produced floral photogenic drawings. These are placed in direct relationship with images of Beirut and of the family apartment from the balcony of which these plants were gathered before being placed under the developer.^[9]

Starting 2014, Nadim Asfar began work on “Experiencing the Mountain”, a project dealing with the mountainous landscape of Lebanon, taking the role of a land surveyor, capturing thousands of photographs across the country. In this work, he interrogates the role of aesthetic representation and of the photographer’s point of view in landscape photography as much as the role of beauty and poetry in a nationalized politicized and war-affected territory.^[10] This endeavour was inaugurated with a short film shown for the first time at the Heartland – Territoires d’Affects exhibition at the Beirut Exhibition Center in 2015.^[11] A selection of photographs in large-scale formats were displayed at the “Where I End and You Begin” exhibition at Galerie Tanit in 2016^[12] and again at the Beiteddine Palace at the occasion of its annual festival in 2018.^[13]

Selected exhibitions

Solo

Group

Filmography

Publications

Awards

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.marseilleexpos.com/?p=7183 |title=Nadim ASFAR un partenariat FID-OÙ |author=Dominique Raizon |date=2011-05-05 |work= |publisher=Marseille Expos |accessdate=15 January 2012}}
2. ^{{cite web |url=https://nadimasfar.com/#introduction |title=Artists's official website, presentation |author= |date=2018 |work= |publisher=Nadim Asfar |accessdate=13 October 2018}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.galerietanit.com/bios/asfar/asfar.htm|title=Galerie Tanit. The Artists: Nadim Asfar|author=|date=|work=|publisher=Galerie Tanit|accessdate=15 January 2012|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120428043248/http://www.galerietanit.com/bios/asfar/asfar.htm|archivedate=28 April 2012|df=}}
4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.imarabe.org/exposition-ima-1672 |title=Regards des photographes arabes contemporains |author= |year=2005 |work= |publisher=Institut du Monde Arabe |accessdate=22 January 2012}}
5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.galerietanit.com/show.php?it=bios/asfar/immaterial_world |title=Exhibition Tour: Nadim Asfar 'Immaterial World' |author= |year=2008 |work= |publisher=Galerie Tanit |accessdate=15 January 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110925195432/http://www.galerietanit.com/show.php?it=bios%2Fasfar%2Fimmaterial_world |archivedate=25 September 2011 |df= }}
6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.foam.org/foam-magazine/portfolios/a/asfar,-nadim |title=Issue #20 / Talent / Nadim Asfar |author= Jörg Colberg |year=2009 |work= |publisher= |accessdate=15 January 2012}}
7. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2011/May-14/A-constellation-of-Beiruts-beauty.ashx#axzz1kEGEjQrF |title=A constellation of Beirut’s beauty |author=Matthew Mosley |date=May 14, 2011 |work= |publisher=The Daily Star |accessdate=22 January 2012}}
8. ^{{cite web |url=https://nadimasfar.com/#introduction |title=Artists's official website, presentation |author= |date=2018 |work= |publisher=Nadim Asfar |accessdate=13 October 2018}}
9. ^{{cite web |url=https://nadimasfar.com/#introduction |title=Artists's official website, presentation |author= |date=2018 |work= |publisher=Nadim Asfar |accessdate=13 October 2018}}
10. ^{{cite web |url=https://nadimasfar.com/#introduction |title=Artists's official website, presentation |author= |date=2018 |work= |publisher=Nadim Asfar |accessdate=13 October 2018}}
11. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/951891/linfini-territoire-du-coeur-dix-sept-fois-fragmente.html |title=L'Orient Le Jour, article about "Heartland" exhibition |author=Zéna Zalzal |date=29 October 2015 |work= |publisher=Beiteddine Festival |accessdate=13 October 2018}}
12. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.galerietanit.com/exhibition/nadim-asfar/where-i-end-and-you-begin |title=Galerie Tanit, Where I End and You Begin |author= |date=2018 |work= |publisher=Galerie Tanit |accessdate=13 October 2018}}
13. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.beiteddine.org/event-details.asp?eventId=421 |title=Beiteddine Festival, Where I End and You Begin |author= |date=2018 |work= |publisher=Beiteddine Festival |accessdate=13 October 2018}}
14. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.galerietanit.com/exhibition/nadim-asfar/where-i-end-and-you-begin |title=Nadim Asfar WHERE I END AND YOU BEGIN |author= |year=2016 |work= |publisher=Galerie Tanit |accessdate=26 February 2018}}
15. ^{{cite web |url=https://beirut-art-fair.com/curatorial.html |title=Across Boundaries exhibition |author=Beirut Art Fair |date=2018 |work= |publisher=Beiteddine Festival |accessdate=14 October 2018}}