The architect (and member of the music group Mashrou 'Leila) was invited to design the scenography of the Institute's new exhibition "Lights of Lebanon", and redesign the "Espace des Donateurs" (Donors' place) which hosts the event.
The architect reinvented the space with the idea of representing the Arab world as a whole. He decided to use soil, the colour of which unites all countries in the region. "I realised that the colour of the land binds us, Arabs, together. The photos I came across, taken in Luxor or in Palmyra, could have been taken in Baalbek. The soil's colour is a sort of common background."
Carl Gergès decided to create this space with a 100% Lebanese team, knowing that the exhibit would be about Lebanese contemporary and modern art.
Picture: © Bassem Chahwan