Institute of Contemporary Arts

My Place in Between: Artists' Talk

The artists Alys Williams and Nathalie Harb will talk about their installation and how they envisage its development when it moves to Beirut later this year. There will be a chance to talk to the artists and ask questions about the work.

Alys Williams was born in London in 1979. She is an emerging artist working in installation, live art and short film. She graduated from Camberwell College of Arts with a BA in visual arts: sculpture in 2002 and went on to gain a masters in scenography at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2004. Evolving from the practice of automatic writing and influenced by her time spent living in Spain and Italy, her work explores the poetic qualities of the places we inhabit and constructs dialogue from our encounters with these places. Her practice concentrates on a fusion between movement, text and drawing. Alys has presented public installations across Europe and her work has been included in various festivals and group exhibitions, including the installation Portico (2006), a collaboration with architect Sarah Stead, commissioned by The British School at Rome for the Romadesign+ International Expo. Her work has recently been included in the publication Shibboleth (2007), a catalogue documenting the group exhibition at Dilston Grove in London in 2006. In 2008 she became a contributing video artist with the Artscape gallery. She now lives and works in London

www.artscapegallery.co.uk

Nathalie Harb was born in Beirut in 1977. She graduated with a MA in film directing in from Alba, the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts, and went on to gain a second MA in scenography at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London in 2004, where she had begun working with multi-media installation, video and photography. Her first solo exhibition took place in 2005, at the Hangar of Umam DR, center of archive and research in Beirut. The work presented, Rue du Mot Perdu, was an installation/performance recreating a street in scale of Beirut through videos, models and live performance. Growing up in a palimpsest city, her work explores the layers between present and memories. She has since shown her work at Artissima 2005, at Francesco Pantaleone Arte Contemporanea in Palermo, and at the Lethaby Gallery in London in 2006. She now lives and works in London.

www.umam-dr.org
www.fpac.it/galleria.htm

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