Basile Ghosn, YOUNG MARBLE GIANT (the fly) (2024)

Basile Ghosn (born in 1991, Paris) lives and works between Marseille and Beirut. He holds a DNSEP degree from the Villa Arson, where his researches were principally conducted on printed images. In 2018, he was named Lauréat of the Tourre Sanchis Architecture Young Design Fellowship, awarded during Drawingroom18, a contemporary drawing exhibition organized at Montpellier contemporary arts center La Panacée. The same year, he was also a finalist for the Startpoint Prize, awarded for excellence in young graduates of European art schools. His work has been shown at La Panacée (Montpellier), at La Friche Belle de Mai (Marseilles), at La Cité Radieuse – Le Corbusier (Marseilles), and at the Villa Arson (Nice). Basile Ghosn was selected by the collective Furiosa to exhibit at Art-O-Rama’s showroom in September 2019. He is a cofounder of Belsunce Projects, a curatorial initiative based in Marseille.

TAP is a nonprofit organization committed to making another world possible, by affecting social change through contemporary art.

Founded in a region of unrelenting volatility and absent cultural policies, TAP curates the conditions for communities, private bodies and governmental institutions to recognize that contemporary artists can be allies in driving enduring social change amidst precarious contexts.

In the process, TAP creates accessible tools and production opportunities for contemporary artists, whilst rendering their practice porous and participatory, within and beyond the field of art.

TAP was founded by curator Amanda Abi Khalil and registered as a nonprofit organization in Lebanon in 2014 and in France in 2020. It is based in Beirut and Paris, and its interventions take place internationally.