Akram Zaatari, artist, lives and works in Beirut. He is the author of about forty videos, on issues about post-war Lebanon, especially the way television mediates territorial conflicts and wars, the logic of religious and national resistance movements, and the circulation and production of images in the context of today's geographic division in the Middle East.
His work has been presented in solo exhibitions (2009 Kunstverein Munich; 2007, Art Basel; 2005, Grey Art Gallery, New York; 2004 Portikus, Frankfurt; 2002, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels) as well as collective ones (2008, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; 2007, 52nd Venice Biennial; 2006, Sao Paulo Biennial, Gwangju Biennial, Corée; Biennale de Sydney). Co-founder of the Arab Image Foundation (Beirut), Akram Zaatari recently based his work in collecting and studying the Middle East's photographic history, especially the work of Lebanese photographer Hashem el Madani (1928-), as an archive of social relations and photographic practices.