Galerie Tanit hosts two parallel exhibitions that invite viewers into distinct yet overlapping visual worlds. Sorry for Interrupting by Jacques Vartabedian and Flow by Joumana Jamhouri unfold across the gallery’s rooms, each staging a meditation on fragmentation, memory, and the shifting landscapes that shape our perception.
Flow by Joumana Jamhouri
A photographic journey shaped by water unfolds in this exhibition, tracing an invisible thread between geographies, memories, and urban landscapes. From the Mediterranean to Brazil’s distant coasts, water emerges as both subject and lens: a shifting frontier that divides and binds. It reflects skies, seeps into cities, and softens edges between nature and the built environment. Moving between stillness and motion, it bears witness to time, migration, and the emotional pull of place. Neither fully solid nor entirely formless, water becomes a language of its own, universal, elusive, and deeply human. A liquid archive of histories and horizons.
Sorry for Interrupting by Jacques Vartabedian
Jacques Vartabedian stages a painted ecology of rupture and relation. Through fragmented landscapes and improbable pairings, he constructs spaces where plants that do not coexist share soil, and where clouds break open to reveal gardens. Spread across two rooms, the exhibition oscillates between interruption and connection, large canvases cut across one another, while smaller works cluster in quiet negotiation. Vartabedian’s fictional terrains defy botanical logic, inviting the viewer into a world shaped by dislocation, adaptation, and the persistence of things out of place. Rather than offering harmony, the works reflect on what it means to inhabit contradiction. Can a painting hold multiple truths? Can interruption itself be a way of seeing? Drawing from thinkers like Bachelard and Tsing, Vartabedian’s approach resists cohesion. Instead, he offers moments of tension between natural order and invented rhythm, solitude and proximity, inviting viewers to linger in what remains unresolved.
Location: Galerie Tanit, Beirut, Lebanon.
Date: 16 July until 3 September 2025