“Through lettering, each artist elucidates a specific concept about contemporary Beirut. The city’s name teeters on the brink of legibility in some of their digital renderings, while evoking a plurality of references to what this urban center might signify.”

Exhibition: “And you remained distant when we arrived,” group exhibit-in-a-booklet (featuring artists Antoine Abi Aad, Imad Gebrael, Karim Farah, Khajag Apelian, Kristyan Sarkis, Lara Assouad, Lara Captan, Nada Abdallah, Naji El Mir, Pascal Zoghbi, Sally Mallat, Wael Morcos, and Yara Khoury Nammour), AUB Art Galleries and Collections, American University of Beirut, April 2025.

Keywords: contemporary, dispersible, exhibition, booklet, publication, curatorial practice, art, graphic design, Arabic, calligraphy, lettering, type, typography, script, text, language, writing, fonts, digital, drawings, renderings, geometry, prints, artists, experimentation, abstraction, abstract, legibility, representation, name, naming, city, urban center, capital, Buland Al-Haidari, modern, poet, poem, West Asia, North Africa, Southwest Asia (”Middle East”), Beirut, Lebanon

Image: Amin Alsaden