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Sfeir-Semler Gallery•Apr 03, 2025 — Aug 01, 2025
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Sfeir-Semler Gallery is happy to announce Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s solo exhibition in the Beirut Karantina space, opening on April 3rd, 2025.
Abu Hamdan is a researcher, filmmaker, artist and activist or, as he puts it, a ‘Private Ear’. His audio investigations can be found in trials, advocacy campaigns or journalistic reports as well as live performances, films and multimedia installations.
For his upcoming solo show at Sfeir-Semler, Abu Hamdan has used the idea of noise as an aggregator of his recent and new works. Abu Hamdan statement that ‘power resides with those who define what constitutes noise’ is as fundamental to his exploration of the urban noise-scape of Cairo in the post 2013 military coup as it is to his most recent work in the Syrian Golan Heights occupied territories – recently witnessing political unrest brought about by the planned installation of wind turbines in proximity to people’s homes....More
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Someone Chewing
Sfeir-Semler Gallery•Apr 03, 2025 — Aug 01, 2025
Press Release
Sfeir-Semler Gallery is happy to announce Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s solo exhibition in the Beirut Karantina space, opening on April 3rd, 2025.
Abu Hamdan is a researcher, filmmaker, artist and activist or, as he puts it, a ‘Private Ear’. His audio investigations can be found in trials, advocacy campaigns or journalistic reports as well as live performances, films and multimedia installations.
For his upcoming solo show at Sfeir-Semler, Abu Hamdan has used the idea of noise as an aggregator of his recent and new works. Abu Hamdan statement that ‘power resides with those who define what constitutes noise’ is as fundamental to his exploration of the urban noise-scape of Cairo in the post 2013 military coup as it is to his most recent work in the Syrian Golan Heights occupied territories – recently witnessing political unrest brought about by the planned installation of wind turbines in proximity to people’s homes....More