Marfa Beirut 23 / 24 February 2021

Caline Aoun, Omar Fakhoury, Paola Yacoub, Raed Yassin etc...

Marfa'

SOUTH SOUTH VEZA
23 February: Live selling event   |   24 February: Public Viewing of OVRs

Stéphanie Saadé, Nostalgic Geography, 2013 (detail)

Marfa' is pleased to announce its participation in SOUTH SOUTH VEZA

SOUTH SOUTH is a gallery-led online community, anthology, live resource and aggregator dedicated to art from the Global South and its diaspora. It offers an innovative approach for galleries, artists and collectors to connect during these unprecedented times.
Together with galleries across 6 continents we have joinedthe south-south-platformto share collectively in highlighting the multiplicity of art centers, curatorial approaches and artistic practices shifting perspectives to decentralize the art world and broaden its focus.
Hosted in an online viewing room (OVR), with enriched content, SOUTH SOUTH VEZA is a peer-led art fair. The first edition of the fair will focus on a highly edited group of around 50 invited galleries whose programs powerfully speak to issues salient to our current times. Veza launches on February 23 with a vernissage live selling event and gallery-curated OVRs running from February 24 to March 07. 

The SOUTH SOUTH platform was conceived by Goodman Gallery and has been informed and guided by a founder circle of gallery-led collaborators:
A Gentil Carioca, Goodman Gallery, Chemould Prescott Road, Afriart Gallery, kurimanzutto, Take Ninagawa and Galerie Lelong & Co. 

We will be presenting a selection of works by Caline Aoun, Lamia Joreige, Omar Fakhoury, Paola Yacoub, Raed Yassin, Stéphanie Saadé, Tamara Al Samerraei and Vartan Avakian.

Rania Stephan's video Threshold will be on view as part of the South South Online Film Program 

23 February: Live selling event 
24 February: Public Viewing of OVRs

RHE | Galeries Curate

Lamia Joreige, The River (Video), 2013

We are also very pleased to announce our collaboration with Galleries Curate, with a group exhibition that will be on view at the gallery, launching the reopening of the space.

In the first days of the Covid-19 pandemic, an informal group of contemporary galleries from around the world came together to discuss how to navigate through the new challenges of the global crisis as it affected our artists, staff and businesses. The relationships among us over weeks of exchange became close and essential and we discovered that while the pandemic had broken many things apart, it had also brought us together.
 
Galleries Curate: RHE is the first chapter of this collaboration, an exhibition and website themed around a universal and, we hope, unifying subject: water. Like culture, water is never static but always in flux. From January 4th until May 30th, 2021, a total of 21 exhibitions will be presented concurrently on our online platform and the exhibition spaces of the participating galleries.

RHE (from Greek for that which flows) is a platform for exhibitions, performances, and public interventions that loosely address the theme of water—geographically, politically, economically or metaphorically. Involving projects with twenty-one galleries, both online and on-site, RHE was conceived to span regions, markets, cultures, and audiences around the world, circulating both within and outside of traditional white-box exhibition spaces.

While we are working on these exciting collaborations, we are very proud to announce that starting the month of April, you will be able to visit our gallery and exhibitions remotely through aunique Virtual Reality and 3D experience.