Launched in Damascus in 2010, the aim of the festival was to create a platform for meetings and debates focusing on contemporary visual practice in the Middle East and to encourage and facilitate exchange between young artists in Syria and the neighbouring Arab countries as well as their international peers. The program of the first edition comprised exhibitions, screenings, multi-media performances, lectures and talks.
When the Syrian uprising began in 2011, the format of the festival changed and became nomadic. Thus, the Visual Arts Festival Damascus was hosted by the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2012, as part of the “Power Cut Middle East” program. In 2013, the third edition of the festival is presented at DEPO in Istanbul.
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Syrie, l'art en armes (La Martiniere Editions, 2013) Now available in bookshops.
Illustrated with collages, drawings, photomontages, and frescoes, this work brings together more that 20 Syrian contemporary artists including: Khaled Abdulwahed, Osama Horany, Khalil Younes, Abo Alshams Alsoorii, Tammam Azzam, Akram Al Halabi, Alaa Safady, Amjad Wardeh, Azza Abo Rebbieh, Monif Ajaj, Yaser Safi, Mohamad Omran, Yamen Yousef, Abdul Karim Madjal al-Beik, Waseem Al Marzouki, G. Safadi, Jaber AlAzmeh, Ahmad Ali and several anonymous collectives all of whom bear witness to the implacable violence inflicted upon their country
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