
BAYA | Contradictions That Can’t Be Contained
Baya Mahieddine’s journey has unfolded with a problem the art world still has not solved. Where, exactly, does one place her?

Baya Mahieddine’s journey has unfolded with a problem the art world still has not solved. Where, exactly, does one place her?

Stéphanie Saadé’s work begins beneath the obvious. In her musings on minutiae, objects and fragments seem trivial until they aren’t.

Ahmed Morsi has spent a lifetime painting a place he cannot locate. And that is both by choice and by design.

Since it was established in 2009 as a non-commercial space for contemporary art, Beirut Art Center (BAC) has resisted reductive narratives of what it does, what it means, and how it keeps going.


Some artists inherit their medium. Mona Saudi chose hers with defiance. Born in Amman in 1945, she grew up in a traditional Jordanian household, her ambitions constrained by conservatism, rather carved in stone.