foam magazine #20 / talent
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Nadim Asfar
Nadim Asfar was born in 1976 in Beirut, were he still lives and works. He received a bachelors’ degree in Cinema Studies from the Academie Libanaise des Beax Arts in 2001 and completed a masters in photography in 2003 at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière in Paris. He presented his first solo exhibition Juin at Fadi Mogabgab Gallery in Beirut in 2004 and another in 2008 entitled Immaterial World at the Galerie Tanit in Munich. Nadim Asfar’s work has been shown in several group exhibitions such as Présence that toured to the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris and Centro de Arte Contemporaneo in Sevilla among other venues between 2006 and 2007. The series Innenleben was part of the group exhibition Exposure 2009 in the Beirut Art Center. Nadim Asfar makes videos, among which the short movie Print(1) was
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presented at several festivals including the Cinemaeast Film Festival at the Independent Film Center in New York. Since 2004 he has taught theory and practice of photography at ALBA. Nadim Asfar is represented by Tanit Galerie in Munich. Innenleben features apartments broadcast on free adult amateur channels; Asfar photographed the empty rooms soon after the broadcasters had moved out, leaving a vacant image in which a strange intimacy is still palpable, revealing small, unintended details. The private and the public merge in these pictures of anonymous interiors.
All images © Nadim Asfar, courtesy Tanit Galerie, Munich