#Omar Mismar

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Venezia, maggio 2024 “Foreigners Everywhere”, Biennale d’Arte.

Le tende e le inferriate di Kiluanji Kia Henda e i mosaici di Omar Mismar, sono due delle tante facce dell’arte africana che ha una produzione copiosa e spesso molto vitale. Fino a qualche decennio fa il continente africano guardava all’Europa e al cosiddetto Occidente, oggi avviene il contrario. Come è ovvio che sia…

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Omar Mismar (b 1986) Lebanon

Hunting Scene (Still from a YouTube video of a Barrel Bomb Falling on Daraya) (2019-20)

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Omar Mismar, who lives and works in Beirut, was trained first as a graphic designer in Beirut, and then as an artist in the United States. With Ahmad and Akram Protecting Hercules (2019–2020) and Parting Scene (with Ahmad, Firas, Mostafa, Yehya, Mosaab) (2023), Mismar subverts the commission to honour the heroic actions of the forgotten and benevolent guardians of an archaeological museum in Syria. With Fantastical Scene [sic] (2019– 2020), he switches the head of the lion as predator with the head of the bull as prey, a word play in Arabic, as the former translates to al-assad and the latter to al-thawr, which sounds like thawra, or revolution. With Spring Cleaning (2022), Mismar subverts representations of prized artefacts by consecrating the inexpensive polyester fibre blanket, emblematic of the living conditions of refugees. And with Two Unidentified Lovers in a Mirror (2023), he audaciously reclaims an explicit image of queer life, deemed unnatural in Lebanon, but whose explicitness is disrupted as the tesserae of the two men’s faces are rearranged.

This is the first time the work of Omar Mismar is presented at Biennale Arte. Rasha Salti labiennale.org

WATCH www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWfw09HBGfk

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Omar Mismar

Omar Mismar, que vive e trabalha em Beirute, formou-se primeiro como designer gráfico em Beirute e depois como artista nos Estados Unidos. Com Ahmad e Akram Protecting Hercules (2019–2020) e Parting Scene (com Ahmad, Firas, Mostafa, Yehya, Mosaab) (2023), Mismar subverte a comissão para homenagear as ações heróicas dos esquecidos e benevolentes guardiões de um museu arqueológico em Síria.…

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Omar Mismar. Two unidentified lovers in a mirror, 2019-2020

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Omar Mismar, "Two Unidentified Lovers in a Mirror" , 2023. Master Mosaicist: Abdel Moneim Barakat. Photo courtesy of Mahmoud Merjan

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Omar Mismar @ the Venice Biennale 2024

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The man who waited for a kiss, 2014, Omar Mismar

Photo prise par moi-même lors de l'exposition « Habibi, Les révolutions de l'amour » à l'Institut du monde arabe (février 2023)

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Omar Mismar

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https://raedibrahim.com/

https://www.sidolansari.com/papa-suce-et-maman-coud

https://www.omarmismar.com/the-man-who-waited-for-a-kiss

Habibi, les révolutions de l'amour à l'IMA 

Elly Etmanetoh par Nawal El Zoghbi (2003)

dans Ballroom Digital Drag Performance, Anya Kneez - Nawal X Pascal, 2021

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The Man Who Waited For A Kiss

Installation by Beirut-born artist Omar Mismar, who maps queer desire through social media. "Mismar advertised through Craigslist, Grindr, and Scruff, that he would be at a particular location for 30 minutes,waiting to be kissed. These simple public displays of same-sex affection—dangerous in many parts of the world—were intentionally sited near surveillance cameras, and documented by the artist's pin-hole camera. The resulting images now fill the "newspapers: of this installation, which you are invited to take." Currently on view at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, as part of FOUND — curated by Avram Finkelstein.

More photos: Leslie-Lohman Museum, Queer Art

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Omar Mismar. I will not find this image beautiful. 2015. 

http://montalvoarts.org/participants/omar_mismar/

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Chelsea Knight (’08), Omar Mismar (’16), Elizabeth Tubergen (’15) and more L'INTRUS Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Culture Andre zigarrogileak plaza, 1 20012. Donostia / San Sebastián October 26, 2018 – February 3, 2019

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Did not want to filter this since it’s already amazing. This piece of art is titled, “The Path of Love,” by Omar Mismar

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Stills from works on st_age Season 02: Asunción Molinos Gordo, Barruntaremos, 2021; Abhishek Hazra, The Aerosol Chronicles Capture Omlojan, 2020-2021; Omar Mismar, Abou Farid’s War, 2021; Courtney Desiree Morris, Sopera de Yemaya: Olokun, 2020; Diana Policarpo, CPMK2, 2021; Alaa Mansour, The Mad Man's Laughter, 2021. Courtesy of TBA21.