Next Thursday at 7 pm, Casa Árabe will host a talk entitled Photography, memory and resilience: what remains in between, with Tanya Traboulsi and Tamara Kalo, two of the artists included in the show What Lies in Between, winner of the NUR-PHotoESPAÑA 2025 contest. They are accompanied by the commissioner, Ana Belén García Mula. Free entry until full capacity. In English with simultaneous interpretation.
Three artists -Taysir Batniji, Tanya Traboulsi and Tamara Kalo- invite you to contemplate, from an intimate perspective and without ornaments, the complex reality of their corner of the Arab world. They are places marked by reconstruction, loss and resilience. The conference can be followed live on our YouTube channel.
Although their trajectories differ, they coincide in a story that crosses his works and endows them with a poetic force that transcends the personal. Far from a strictly documentary approach, this exhibition proposes an immersion in deeper layers of meaning, those that rarely reach the headlines. Through the image as an expressive tool capable of transforming and healing, artists reconstruct fragmented narratives from contexts wounded by violence and uprooting, reinterpreting their experiences from the symbolic and aesthetic.
Tamara Kalo, deeply connected to the living memory of the territory, pays tribute to the olive tree, millenary emblem of permanence and intergenerational harmony. In his work, he also draws attention to one of the most emblematic skyscrapers in Beirut, a former prison that now houses numerous birds. Although nature has claimed it, the building is still standing, since its demolition is not feasible due to its high cost, thus leaving a painful mark on the urban landscape of the city.
Tanya Traboulsi, on the other hand, proposes an intimate and humanistic look at Beirut before the recent outbreak of conflict. Through his personal memories and his reunion with the city after a long stay in Europe, Traboulsi portrays a peaceful Beirut, imbued with quietness and resistance. His approach, delicate and honest, guides the viewer through a city full of nostalgia and marked by the emotional strength of its inhabitants.
