Furn ElHarra (Arabic for "the neighborhood bakery") is a collaborative, site-specific installation with Christian Sleiman, that transforms 200Cent into a functioning Lebanese bakery-improvised, familiar, and dislocated.
We reach for what we know: we plant, we cook, we rebuild. We gather fragments-gestures that bind us to the past while forging space for something new.
Headlines blur across time. New wars echo old ones. Migration becomes less a rupture than a rhythm. The clock in the bakery loops endlessly. Bread is made even when no one is there to eat.
The smell of za'atar invites pause, even if briefly. The city absorbs its presence without fully knowing what it means.
Like other spaces shaped by migrating communities,
the bakery opens small cracks in the structures surrounding it-glimpses of
another way to exist, not built on permanence, but on relation.
Snaps from the special edition with The Posttraumatic
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What began as temporary relief soon became a daily habit, and these treatments quickly transformed into mechanisms for confrontation and, ultimately, mechanisms for adaptation.
Photo/video credits: The Wall Team
Alternative Solutions - Coping Mechanism : Cipralex
Emulsion Paint on Metal Board for The Wall Beirut
Beirut, Lebanon
2024
The Fountain:Fountain 7
For Wood Street Walls - Facilitated and Supported by WhereTheresWalls
Bristol Beer Fountain
For Upfest - Facilitated and Supported by WhereTheresWalls
Sydenham Fountain
For London Calling Blog- Facilitated and Supported by WhereTheresWalls
Hamra Fountain
Facilitated and Supported by WhereTheresWalls
Sydenham Fountain
For London Calling Blog- Facilitated and Supported by WhereTheresWalls
Surreal
Surreal - with the suppurt of Pass'temps biblioteque
Paint on concrete
Maletriot, Brittany, France
2024
Paint on concrete
Maletriot, Brittany, France
2024
Beware of The Flood “ahdharuu altuwfan” احذروا الطوفان
Beware The Flood
Paint on concrete
Chatelaudren, Brittany, France
2024
Paint on concrete
Chatelaudren, Brittany, France
2024
Tell Me About Friendship
Tell me about friendship - Commissioned by Brazil-Lebanon
Cultural Center (Brasiliban) Facilitated by AOC
Paint emulsion and spray paint on concrete
Beirut, Lebanon
2021
Paint emulsion and spray paint on concrete
Beirut, Lebanon
2021
Natural Alert
Natural Alert - Commissioned by AOC
Emulsion & spraypaint on concrete
Beirut, Lebanon
2020
The INDIAN Roller
The INDIAN Roller for Bayt Muzna Gallery
Spray paint on concrete
Muscat, Oman
2022
Ken Gher Shekl
Ken Gher Shekl
Emulsion and spray paint on concrete
Kfarmishki, beqaa, Lebanon
2022
Emulsion and spray paint on concrete
Kfarmishki, beqaa, Lebanon
2022
Koukou
Koukou
Emulsion and spray paint on concrete
Kfarmishki, beqaa, Lebanon
2022
Emulsion and spray paint on concrete
Kfarmishki, beqaa, Lebanon
2022
Thin Life Between Life and Death
Thin Life Between Life and Death
Spray Paint on concrete
Beirut, Lebanon
2020
Nissan
Spray Paint on concrete
Kfarmishki, beqaa, Lebanon
2022
Kfarmishki, beqaa, Lebanon
2022
Modern Ruins
Modern Ruins 2
Modern Ruins - Comissioned by TAP for In The Blink Of An Eye
Laser print paste-up on beirut municipality billboard
Beirut, Lebanon
Laser print paste-up on beirut municipality billboard
Beirut, Lebanon
Beirut River Tap
Beirut River Tap
Spraypaint on concrete wall
2024
Spraypaint on concrete wall
2024
Urinator
Urinator
Spray paint on concrete
2023
Beirut, Lebanon
Spray paint on concrete
2023
Beirut, Lebanon
Explosives Experts
A vinyl sticker reading "Explosives Experts" is applied to the side of the vehicle, a cynical critique aimed at highlighting the absence and failure of those tasked with managing explosive threats. The intervention underscores the irony and tragic negligence that allowed a catastrophic event to unfold—an explosion that nearly obliterated half of Beirut.
Vinyl sticker on ISF Vehicle
2022
Beirut, Lebanon
2022
Beirut, Lebanon
Nesting
In this harsh reality, we do not thrive; we merely survive. We adapt to an ever-shifting environment, reshaping our expectations, aspirations, and dreams to fit the confines of the new hell we inhabit. Survival becomes our focus as growth fades into a distant memory.
There will be no savior, no phoenix rising from the ashes, no second coming. Clinging to beliefs, faith, and hope, we accept diminishing freedoms, surrendering more with each passing day. Yet there is no divine intervention to rescue us; the solution lies within.
Our plight is born of our collective failure to secure the environment we all share. True safety is unattainable without mutual responsibility. Until we acknowledge this truth, our sanctuaries will remain fragile, and our survival, tenuous.
Nesting - For Ruins squat exhibited curated by Jofre Oliveras
Found wooden windows and doors
3m diameter
2021
Found wooden windows and doors
3m diameter
2021
Nesting 2
The installation was exhibited at Arte laguna
3m diameter
Venice, Italy
2021
3m diameter
Venice, Italy
2021
In Case Of Revolution
In Case Of Revolution
Spray Paint On Shattered Glass
Beirut, Lebanon
2019
Please stand 2 meters away from the poster.
Cover your left eye and read the first line aloud.
Now cover your right eye and read the smallest line you can see.
If you're unable to read the final lines clearly, it may not be your vision
It may be your refusal to look.
Take a step closer.
Then another.
Keep reading.
Seeing clearly is not just about sight.
It’s about confronting what’s in front of you.