Dalia Baassiri, White Olive (2024)

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Dalia Baassiri, White Olive (2024)

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I bathe a small olive tree with native handcrafted soap, a perpetuation of my practice of documenting ritualistic acts of cleansing as testaments of care. Much like the gentle cleansing of a departed one before being laid to rest, I pay homage to the tens of thousands of olive trees that have been an intentional target in an ongoing war.


Dimensions: 28 x 20 cm / 50 x 70 cm
Weight: 0.02 kg / 0.1 kg
Material: Photo paper OLMEC Premium Matte (230gsm)

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Dalia Baassiri is a Lebanese multidisciplinary visual artist, born in Sidon in 1981, whose work focuses on fragile materials, domestic spaces, and Lebanon’s instability. Growing up during the final years of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) and its aftermath, Baassiri describes her childhood as shaped by both close family moments and periods of disruption and fear because of violence. Baassiri began to draw at a very young age. She recalls her early relationship to making art as instinctive and continuous, not the result of formal training or encouragement. During her youth, her drawings received recognition through awards presented by Fabriano, a stationery and paper manufacturer known for its engagement with drawing practices. These awards offered early affirmation of her visual aptitude but were not a defining milestone in her artistic development.

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.

Dalia Baassiri is a Lebanese multidisciplinary visual artist, born in Sidon in 1981, whose work focuses on fragile materials, domestic spaces, and Lebanon’s instability. Growing up during the final years of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) and its aftermath, Baassiri describes her childhood as shaped by both close family moments and periods of disruption and fear because of violence. Baassiri began to draw at a very young age. She recalls her early relationship to making art as instinctive and continuous, not the result of formal training or encouragement. During her youth, her drawings received recognition through awards presented by Fabriano, a stationery and paper manufacturer known for its engagement with drawing practices. These awards offered early affirmation of her visual aptitude but were not a defining milestone in her artistic development.

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.

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