Two unidentified lovers…
Two unidentified lovers in a mirror
Mosaic, 130 × 130 cm
2023
Commissioned for the 60th Venice Biennale, Two unidentified lovers in a mirror 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.
Mosaic produced in collaboration with mosaicist Abdel Mon’em Barakat
Photo documentation: Mahmoud Merjan
Two unidentified lovers in a car
Mosaic, 155 × 168 cm
2025
Commissioned for the 9th Biennial of Contemporary Mosaic in Ravenna, at the Palazzo Rasponi dalle Teste, curated by Serena Simoni and Daniele Torcellini. Created in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts of Ravenna, the work reimagines key features of the city’s early Christian and Byzantine mosaics and is the result of a workshop that involved students: Lorenzo Baruzzi, Chiara Capucci, Samuela Cottignoli, Cecilia De Carlo, Veronica Di Felice, Miriam Fabietti, Mattia Farinelli, Chiara Ferraresi, Xia Lingjie, Hernan Lombardo, Anna Loscalzo, Chiara Ravina, Martina Scaramuzzo, Lorenzo Scarpellini, Dalia Tvardauskaite, and Cheng Yinzhuoran, supported by the studio technician Luca Colomba, and guided by the professors Silvia Naddeo, Leonardo Pivi, and Daniele Strada.
Photo documentation: Gareth Page