Biography

Born in 1966, Gilbert Hage takes photographs, lives and works in Beirut. Being a member of the Lebanese contemporary art scene, which is simmering with excitement, Hage continues to nurture his photographic œuvre. His work in progress Here and Now questions globalization and identity. It was preceded by Anonymous, Beirut and All and Sundry, where he reflects on the notions of power, historicity and geography. Henceforth, and following Israel’s 2006 war on Lebanon, Homeland I, II, III as well as 242 cm² question the virtuality of the territory and the borders. He continues with two projects, Phone(-Ethics) and Strings, examining, with a trenchant eye, society in its resistance when facing the rise of fanaticism. In 2008, with Pillows, he judges, as a last resort, the industry of intimacy. Moreover, since January 2008, at the moment when all premises became prohibited to them, Hage turns into a modeler of « smoking spaces », calling for a denunciation of the new order of good deeds. Away from transcendence, his actual work on the body is a continuation of his research where the virtuality of spaces poses the problematic of flesh and intimacy in the first plac