About

Sirine Fattouh (b. 1980) is a visual artist and filmmaker.

Her work unfolds through video installations, films, drawings, and sculpture, often developing from long-term research and encounters.

Her films create immersive situations where speech emerges through gestures, silences, and shared experiences.

In parallel, her drawings and sculptural works, including ceramics, engage with more intimate and fragmentary forms, where memory appears through objects and material traces.

Working between personal experience and collected narratives, she explores how memory is shaped by displacement, conflict, and exile. Her practice constructs a living archive in which stories are gathered, transformed, and reactivated over time.

Upcoming: 12–13 September 2026
PERFORMATIVE 06
MAXXI L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy
Entre les ruines, video.

  • Sirine Fattouh (b. 1980) is a visual artist, filmmaker, and researcher.

    Her work unfolds through video installations, films, drawing, and sculpture, often developed through long-term research and encounters.

    Her films are built as immersive situations in which speech appears indirectly — through a game, a journey, or a shared space. These encounters give rise to fragments of stories that remain open, incomplete, or unresolved.

    Working between personal experience and collected narratives, she explores how memory is shaped by conflict, displacement, and exile, particularly in relation to the Middle East and its diasporas. Her practice engages with oral histories and lived experiences to construct a living archive where intimate stories intersect with broader political realities.

    Her work is shaped by feminist and decolonial perspectives, explored through situated experiences and embodied narratives rather than through fixed categories.

    Her drawings and sculptural works, including ceramics, develop a more intimate and material approach, where memory is embedded in objects, forms, and tactile processes.

    She holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She has taught in France and Lebanon and has been a faculty member at the École supérieure d’Art d’Avignon (ESAA) since 2021.

    Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at La Galerie, centre d’art contemporain (Noisy-le-Sec), Sursock Museum (Beirut), Centre Pompidou-Metz, MAXXI (Rome), Fondation d’entreprise Ricard (Paris), Beirut Art Center, Mucem (Marseille), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Institut du monde arabe (Paris), and the Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art.

    • From Algiers to Beirut, A video correspondence between Leïla Saadna and Sirine Fattouh (2021-ongoing).

    • Fragments, Lebanon, 2024.

    • The Last Song, France, 2024.

    • A Song to my Brothers, France, 2023.

    • The Welcome Song, France, 2023.

    • Behind the Shield, Lebanon, 2022.

    • A Night in Fes, Morocco, 2021.

    • Another Night in Beirut, Lebanon, 2019.

    • What Remains, France, 2019.

    • From Syria to Palestine: El Autostrad, Lebanon, 2017.

    • A Conversation With my Mother, France, 2014.

    • Love Talk Part I and II, Beirut, Lebanon, 2009.

    • Lost and Won, Lebanon, 2008.

    • REMAKE, Lebanon, 2008.

    • Among Ruins, Bint-Jbeil, Lebanon, 2007.

    • La Traverse, Lebanon, 2007.

    • Sans, Nahr-El-Bared and Tripoli, Lebanon, 2007.

    • A Night In Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, 2006.

    • Temps morts, Lebanon, 2005.

    •  La vie était belle (Life was Beautiful), Beirut, 2005.

  • 2026

    • Roundtable Discussion: How Does War Affect Artistic Practices? Mediterranean Institute of Cities and Territories, Marseille, France.

    2025

    • You're going to need a bigger screen: Visual cultures under surveillance, Paris.

    • Seminar: (Counter-)Visual Investigations and Image Evidence, Ehess, Paris.

    • Seminar Contemporary Artistic Practices, Iesav-Usj, Beirut, Lebanon.

    2024

    • "BRAIN AND CREATIVITY: BEYOND MYTHS" in conversation with Samah KARAKI, as part of Brain Week, Société des Neurosciences, Montpellier, France.

    • BLAST, Esthétiques de l’onde de choc, Dir. Hélène Virion and Isabelle Alzieu, University of Toulouse - Jean-Jaurès, France.

    2023

    • Décolonisation des savoirs et réappropriation de mon Histoire à travers l’art, Journée d’histoire de l’art, École supérieure d’art d’Avignon, Avignon, France.

    • Filmer, archiver, documenter : l'événement au cœur de l'intime, du social et du politique, l'antiAtlas des épistémicides,Dir. Anna Guillo,MUCEM, Marseille, France.

    • A history of Lebanon Through the Artworks of its Artists, during the annual exhibition of Passe Murailles, École supérieure d’art d’Avignon, Avignon, Franc

    2022

    • Penser le Présent - Rencontre « Beyrouth, Comment penser avec les artistes l’effondrement d’une ville ? », Beaux-Arts of Paris, France.

    2021

    • Créer encore : la vie artistique au Liban après la catastrophe as part of the seminar Éthiques et mythes de la création, organized by Sylvie Dallet and Elie Yazbek (Online).

    2019

    2018

    • Les enjeux et problématiques de la scène artistique libanaise de l’après-guerre : quelle place pour les œuvres des artistes libanais dans l’histoire contemporaine ?, Lebanese University, Faculty of Fine Arts and Architecture, Furn el Chebbak, Beirut, Lebanon.

    2016

    2012

    • Art is the answer! Villa Empain, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, Belgium.

    • La recherche et ses flux, ENSBA, Paris, France with Marion Guibert, Sirine Fattouh, Sophie Orlando, Christine Ithurbide, Aliocha Imhoff et Kantuta Quiros.


    2011


    2008

    2006

    • « Femme(s) et Arts Contemporain », la Halle Saint-Pierre, Paris, France.

  • 2023-2025

    • Full-time Lecturer at ESAA, Avignon, France. Subject taught: Video art, Performance, Installation.

    2022

    • Full-time Lecturer at ESAA, Avignon, France. Subject taught: Video art.

    • Part-time Lecturer at IESAV-USJ, Beirut, Lebanon. Subject taught: Vidéo alternative.

    2021

    • Part-time Lecturer at IESAV-USJ, Beirut, Lebanon. Subject taught: Vidéo alternative.

    • Part-time Lecturer at USJ, Beirut, Lebanon. Subjects taught : History of video art and performance.

    2020

    • President of Jury for the DNSEP, École Nationale Suppérieur de Paris Cergy (ENSAPC), Cergy, France.

    • Part-time Lecturer at LAU, Byblos, Lebanon. Subjects taught: Modern Art.

    • Part-time Lecturer at USEK, Kaslik, Lebanon. Subjects taught: History of contemporary art.

    • Part-time Lecturer at IESAV-USJ, Beirut, Lebanon. Subject taught : Vidéo alternative.

    2019

    • Part-time Lecturer at LAU, Byblos, Lebanon. Subjects taught: History of Art II, Modern Art.

    • Part-time Lecturer at USEK, Kaslik, Lebanon. Subjects taught: History of contemporary art.

    • Part-time Lecturer at IESAV-USJ, Beirut, Lebanon. Subject taught : Vidéo alternative.

    2018

    • Part-time Lecturer at LAU, Byblos, Lebanon. Subjects taught: Art Appreciation, History of Art II, Modern Art.

    • Part-time Lecturer at USEK, Kaslik, Lebanon. Subjects taught: History of contemporary art.

    • Part-time Lecturer at USJ, Beirut, Lebanon. Subjects taught : History of video art and performance.

    2017

    • Part-time Lecturer at LAU, Byblos, Lebanon. Subject taught: Art Appreciation.

    • Part-time Lecturer at USEK, Kaslik, Lebanon. Subject taught: History of contemporary art.

    2015-2018

    • Part-time Lecturer at IESAV-USJ, Beirut, Lebanon. Subject taught : Vidéo alternative.

    2016

    • Master Thesis Director and Jury member for the DNSEP, School of Fine Art of Besançon, France.

    • Part-time Lecturer at USJ, Beirut, Lebanon. Subjects taught : History of video art and performance.

    2010-2011

    • Part-time Lecturer at the University of Paris-1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, Department of Fine Arts and Aesthetics, Paris, France.

    2009-2010

    • Lecturer with an ATER status (a fixed-term contract for teaching and research), at the University of Paris-1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, Department of Fine Arts and Aesthetics, Paris, France.

    2008-2005

    • Lecturer at the University of Paris-1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, Department of Fine Arts and Aesthetics, Paris, France. Subjects taught : First BA year, Personal Creation in relation to current artistic events. Second BA year, Contemporary Drawing.

  • Writing and directing of 24 short documentaries with Leïla Saadna for the program 5, Rue Sésame (Sesame Street), broadcast on France 5 in 2005-2006. Produced by Expand Drama.