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![Components]( "Components")
infoA project in early stages, [components] is concerned with places from memory, morphed by time, bias, trauma, and nostalgia. I chose the breezeblock (كلوسترا / مشربية) as the first objects to be made because of their heavy presence during my up-bringing in Lebanon- as a commonly used architectural element- and because of the diversity of their pattern designs. I decided to create three pattern types: traditional, ornamental, abstract, and early internet culture symbolism, challenging the status of the internet computer as a place.
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on the X-ray as a fetish object
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![Postcards]( "Postcards")
infoA series of paintings including text from diary entries from the past 4 years. Painted onto postcards, they act as time capsules both from the past and for the future. Within these texts, I often utilize metaphor, subtext, and humor to undercut their severity and instead lean into a less linear way of writing that better resembles the unpredictability of my thoughts and feelings. This form of writing also prioritizes omission, which is a quality I value within my work, as I believe it opens up the storyline to endless interpretations
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Video from my thesis project on haunted places. Places are the subject of this performative documentary. Filmed in collaboration with friends in various countries, the video merges the real and false lore of the subjects, and questions not only what stories these places could hold, but what gives them the title of place to begin with.
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![On Haunted Places]( "On Haunted Places")
infoMy graduation (thesis) work, an installation which features two works, I.D.S.T. and HTTTP: How to Talk to Places [REAL!] This photo is of the installation as a whole
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From a video installation about haunting at the intersection of technology and place, reflecting on the uncomfortable meshing of familiar and unfamiliar in home recordings found on the Internet Archive (1960s-1980s). The video also includes a narrative about the shifting public reaction to the tape recorder through the years, beginning with curious amusement, to wariness, and finally, doom.
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![I.D.S.T.]( "I.D.S.T.")
infoA wall created through a repeated process of addition and subtraction, emphasizing the layered and transformative nature of place.
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![Adrift, A Shift]( "Adrift, A Shift")
infoThe poster for the 2023 Master Institute of Visual Cultures graduation show, designed in collaboration with Robbert van Binsbergen
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![Air (extended)]( "Air (extended)")
infoA video installation about haunting at the intersection of technology and place, reflecting on the uncomfortable meshing of familiar and unfamiliar in home recordings found on the Internet Archive (1960s-1980s). The photo is of the installation.
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![The Rooms of my Friends]( "The Rooms of my Friends")
infoAn illustration featuring elements from the rooms of my friends, or rather versions of these elements and rooms as I remember them
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From a video installation. An autobiographical, non-chronological timeline reflecting on the technological breakthroughs that caused discourse about death and mortality.
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A video reflecting on the discomfort of personhood and the ephemeral nature of the self.
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![Ghost Anatomy]( "Ghost Anatomy")
infoA comic about becoming a ghost, and what that entails existing sometimes as text, sometimes as digital comic, sometimes as a tiny cyanotype comic book
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![I learned 4 songs on the bass then I dipped LOL]( "I learned 4 songs on the bass then I dipped LOL")
infoA charcoal drawing, impulsively drawn to express an indescribable feeling.
Websites
personal website
m-lo.comSocial media
Curriculum vitae
Education
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2021 - 2023Visual Arts and Post-Contemporary Practice Den Bosch, Academie van Kunst en Vormgeving diploma
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2014 - 2019Architecture Lebanese American University diploma
exhibitions
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2024Limburg Biënnale 2024 Marres Maastricht, Netherlands Every two years, the Limburg Biënnale connects the professional and amateur arts in a special group exhibition with works selected through an open call. It highlights anyone who feels like an artist, from starting hobbyists to established professionals. This year, our jury of 18 professional artists reviewed an impressive 3,000 submitted works. Their selections will be on show at Odapark and Marres from June 29th through August 25th, 2024. marres.org/en/program/limburg-biennale-2024/ Group
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2023Adrift, A Shift Willem Twee Kunstruimte Den Bosch, Netherlands Graduation Show for the Master Institute of Visual Cultures in Den Bosch. I presented my graduation project on haunted places: I.D.S.T. and HTTTP: How to Talk to Places [REAL!] 2023.thecurrent.is/project/haunting-or-what-it-means-to-be-a-ghost Group
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2023GRIT Playreading Festival Online (Zoom) International Following a 3 month residency with Exit11 Performing Arts Company, 4 residents showcase their plays online, featuring actors, directors, and audience members in several countries. I showcased my play How to Become a House. www.exit11arts.com/grit-2023-playreading-festival/ Group
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2023Open Studio Exhibition Master Institute of Visual Cultures Den Bosch, Netherlands A student show showcasing the mid-term projects at the Master Institute of Visual Cultures in Den Bosch. I presented my work Air (extended). www.instagram.com/mivc_student/ Group
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2018Talent Unbound Zico House Beirut, Lebanon For Beirut Design Week, the collective Beirut Art Salon put together a multi-media exhibition featuring local artists. I exhibited a series of illustrations and prints. Group
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2018What is the City but People? Joe Fish Beirut, Lebanon For Beirut Design Week, the beirut design studio Joe Fish hosted an exhibition showcasing local talents expressing certain aspects of life in Beirut. I exhibited my digital painting Dysphoria. joefish.com/ Group
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2018Abandoned Places, Public Spaces: Heritage Preservation Arab Center for Architecture Beirut, Lebanon For Beirut Design Week, the Arab Center for Architecture hosted a series of talks and projects. My 2 collaborators and I delivered a lecture and presented our project The Lebanese Coastal Railway_Industrial Heritage, speculating on the forgotten coastal railway in Lebanon. arab-architecture.org/news/all/5 Group
Projects
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2024
Components Den Bosch, Netherlands A project in early stages, [components] is concerned with places from memory, morphed by time, bias, trauma, and nostalgia. I chose the breezeblock (كلوسترا / مشربية) as the first objects to be made because of their heavy presence during my up-bringing in Lebanon- as a commonly used architectural element- and because of the diversity of their pattern designs. I decided to create three pattern types: traditional, ornamental, abstract, and early internet culture symbolism, challenging the status of the internet computer as a place.
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2023
On Haunted Places St Joost 's-Hertogenbosch Den Bosch, Netherlands 2023.thecurrent.is/project/haunting-or-what-it-means-to-be-a-ghost My graduation project from the Master Institute of Visual Cultures in Den Bosch, featuring an installation of two projects, I.D.S.T., a sculptural work reflecting on the transformative nature of place, and a video work titled HTTTP or How to Talk to Places [REAL!] which discusses the "placeness" of places, and the idea of the computer as a place.
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2023
Air (extended) St Joost 's-Hertogenbosch Den Bosch, Netherlands www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IOcO6Bbkwg A video installation about haunting at the intersection of technology and place, reflecting on the uncomfortable meshing of familiar and unfamiliar in home recordings found on the Internet Archive (1960s-1980s).
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2023
HTTTP: How to Talk to Places [REAL] St Joost 's-Hertogenbosch Den Bosch, Netherlands www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNXQ5DPzU9g Part of "On Haunted Places", my graduation project. As a viral video challenge encourages people to interview the places in their lives, HTTTP questions what kind of stories places could hold, and what gives them the title of place to begin with. The video also nods to growing up online, and the unstable border between our bodies and virtual space.
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2023
I.D.S.T. St Joost 's-Hertogenbosch Den Bosch, Netherlands Part of "On Haunted Places", my graduation project. A wall created through a repeated process of addition and subtraction, emphasizing the layered and transformative nature of place. Using photographs taken from my archive of spaces, objects, or moments that signify place.
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2023
Postcards Den Haag, Netherlands A series of paintings including text from diary entries from the past 4 years. Painted onto postcards, they act as time capsules both from the past and for the future. Within these texts, I often utilize metaphor, subtext, and humor to undercut their severity and instead lean into a less linear way of writing that better resembles the unpredictability of my thoughts and feelings. This form of writing also prioritizes secrecy, which is a quality I value within my work, as I believe it opens up the storyline to endless interpretations.
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2022
Air St Joost 's-Hertogenbosch Den Bosch, Netherlands www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZH5YvK0PmI&t=16s Video Installation: An autobiographical, non-chronological timeline reflecting on the technological breakthroughs that caused discourse about death and mortality.
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2021
Ghost Anatomy St Joost 's-Hertogenbosch Den Bosch, Netherlands A comic about becoming a ghost, and what that entails existing sometimes as text, sometimes as digital comic, sometimes as a tiny cyanotype comic book
International exchanges/Residencies
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2023Exit 11 Performing Arts Company Online A playwriting residency in which 4 residents meet weekly (online) to draft and discuss their own plays. Moderated by Ethan David Lee, Tan Tzy Jiun, Kevin Ke with workshops hosted by playwright Abhishek Majumdar, playwright and actor Arianna Stucki, and performance maker, researcher, and curator Mark Teh. The residency culminated in an online playreading festival held on zoom to an international audience. My play, titled How to Become a House, dealt with the ephemeral nature of identity. www.exit11arts.com/grit-2023-playreading-festival/
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2023St Joost 's-Hertogenbosch Boxtel, Netherlands As part of the master's program at the Master Institute of Visual Culture in Den Bosch, the residency, Rethinking the Artist Economy, held at De Kleine Aarde in Boxtel over the course of 3 weeks (Oct 2022, Feb 2023, April 2023) included lectures, workshops, and activities questioning the role of the artist in the current economy, and alternative approaches to working in the cultural field. rethinkingtheartisteconomy.hotglue.me/?Zine%202
Commissions
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2024The Horizon Shifts As I Do Het HEM Zaandam, Netherlands An illustration for the poem "The Horizon Shifts As I Do" By Eleni Maragkou thecouch.hethem.nl/the-horizon-shifts-as-i-do/ finished
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2024Escape From The Internet Het HEM Zaandam, Netherlands An illustration for the essay "Escape From The Internet" By Eleni Maragkou thecouch.hethem.nl/escape-from-the-internet/ finished
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202211 titles including "Between Costs and Child Labor: What is the Status of Refugee Education in Lebanon?", "Refugees and the job market: Working against the grain", and "Lebanon’s housing crisis: On tenant rights, eviction, and the state" Beirut Today Beirut, Lebanon I delivered illustrations for 11 articles for the journal Beirut Today, commissioned by the Qudra Project which covered topics political, socioeconomic, and cultural in nature. beirut-today.com/2022/07/21/older-people-in-lebanon-die-a-thousand-times-each-day-amidst-crisis/ finished
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2022Bread&Net Fiction Prize: Digital Utopias And Futures SMEX Beirut, Lebanon English and Arabic promotional poster design, illustration, and logo for Bread&Net Fiction Prize: Digital Utopias And Futures smex.org/finalists-for-breadnet-fiction-prize-digital-utopias-and-futures/ finished
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2021Navigating home as trans* and queer persons: thoughts from a solidarity group The A Project Beirut, Lebanon A cover illustration for the article "Navigating home as trans* and queer persons: thoughts from a solidarity group", written in collaboration with the Gender and Sexuality Club at University of Saint Joseph theaproject.org/blog/navigating-home-trans-and-queer-persons-thoughts-solidarity-group finished
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2020Tensions in Movement Building Kohl Journal Beirut, Lebanon Article and illustrations for Summer 2020 issue, Tensions in Movement Building kohljournal.press/tears-fabric finished
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20204 separate titles including "Lebanon’s Forensic Audit: Secrecy as the Magic Wand of Impunity" Legal Agenda Beirut, Lebanon 4 article illustrations for their April 2020 issue, covering the economic roots of the 2019 Lebanese revolution english.legal-agenda.com/lebanons-forensic-audit-secrecy-as-the-magic-wand-of-impunity/ finished
Publications
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2024The Couch
reviews
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2023Eindexamens 2023, pg. 30 "Milo Sharafeddine" Magazine Lindy Kuit Utrecht, Netherlands www.metropolism.com/nl/features/50403_nu_in_de_winkel_metropolis_m_nr_4_inkomen_eindexamens_2023 My thesis project on haunted places, which features my works I.D.S.T. and HTTTP: How to Talk to Places [REAL!], was featured on the Graduation Special of Metropolis M "Issue no4 aug - sep 2023 inkomen & eindexamens 2023"
Secondary art-related activities
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2015 - --Illustrator, working on commission On-going