Tamara Kalo, Millenary Witness (2024)

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Tamara Kalo, Millenary Witness (2024)

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This project aims to conjure an ancestral futurity in the present. As Lebanon undergoes perpetual crises, it leaves one’s life within it fixated on quotidian struggles, unable to imagine a brighter tomorrow, and occasionally escaping in the nostalgia of its recent romanticized past. Working with a seven-thousand-year-old olive tree, the work muses on the notion of deep time within the framework of this living tree, imagining the deep past as well as the deep future.


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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Tamara Kalo (b. 1994, Saida, Lebanon) is a Lebanese-French artist working across alternative photographic processes, sculpture, performance, film and textile. Her practice engages image-making as alchemical gestures of ritual and remembrance, tracing body, land, and memory through the politics of displacement and visibility. Navigating between the intimate and collective, she holds the body as a relational measure of place: a site-specific witness to the re-mapping of boundaries and belonging. Through duration, process, and materiality her work touches on the fragility between events and their recollection, and the fluid temporality of human experience set against the ancient wisdom of land.

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.

Tamara Kalo (b. 1994, Saida, Lebanon) is a Lebanese-French artist working across alternative photographic processes, sculpture, performance, film and textile. Her practice engages image-making as alchemical gestures of ritual and remembrance, tracing body, land, and memory through the politics of displacement and visibility. Navigating between the intimate and collective, she holds the body as a relational measure of place: a site-specific witness to the re-mapping of boundaries and belonging. Through duration, process, and materiality her work touches on the fragility between events and their recollection, and the fluid temporality of human experience set against the ancient wisdom of land.

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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