About
Sirine Fattouh (b. 1980) is a visual artist and filmmaker.
Her work unfolds through video installations, films, drawing, 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.
NEWS: Saturday, April 25, 3pm — Carré Beaudoin (Paris), screening of From Algiers to Beirut (a film correspondence with Leïla Saadna).
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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.
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A Night in Beirut and Another Night in Beirut, Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap), France.
On Becoming, Institut du monde Arabe, Collection Claude et France Lemand, Paris, France.
A Night in Beirut and Another Night in Beirut, Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art (SAMOCA), Diriyah, Saudi Arabia.
Entre les ruines, MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy.
Work on Paper, Beirut Museum of Art (BEMA), Beirut, Lebanon.
Frac Normandie, France.
The Last Supper, The State Museum of Contemporary Art (SMCA), Thessaloniki, Greece.
A Night In Beirut, Nadour Collection, Germany.
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2025: AFAC Fund, Visual Arts.
2024: DRAC, Individual Creation Grant.
2022: Patronage Commission, Fondation des Artistes.
2017: First Prize, Photomed, Lebanon.
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2023
Unpredictable Times, La galerie, centre d’art contemporain de Noisy le Sec, France.
2019
Solo Show at Letitia Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon.
2017
Une histoire du Liban à travers les œuvres de ses artistes et cinéastes, Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard, Paris, France and Kaai Theater, Brussels, Belgium.
Screening of Lost and Won and Walking Borders at Gessnerallee, Zürich, Switzerland.
2016
Une histoire du Liban à travers les œuvres de ses artistes et cinéastes, Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (Mucem), Marseille, France.
2015
La création à l'épreuve des guerres et de leurs effets : quelques aspects de l'art contemporain libanais, solo Exhibition as part of PhD thesis defense, Institut du monde arabe, Paris, France.
2010
Errance, Roy Sfeir Gallery, Paris, France.
2008
Vous écrire, French Institute, Beirut, Lebanon.
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2025
Screenings of A Night in Beirut, Another Night in Beirut, Behind the Shield, at Silencio, Paris - as part of Paris Photo, organized by the Cnap.
L'Arrière-pays : Territoires arabes en archipel, Les Célestin Church, Avignon, France.
Screening of Behind the Shield, Grand Action Cinema, Paris, France.
Contre;Courant: Art ExploraFestival , Athens, Greece.
2024
Screening of Behind the Shield, Cinelux, Geneva, Switzerland.
Contre ; courant, Festival Art Explora, TAP (Temporary Art Platform), Marseille, France.
Projection of Behind the Shield, Home Works Forum 9,Intimate Garden Scene (in Beirut), Sursock Museum,Lebanon, 2024.
Screening of Behind the Shield,Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
In the Night, Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art at Jax (SAMoCA @ Jax), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Screening of Behind the Shield, Aswat Festival in collaboration with l’Ifpo, Cinéma Royal, Beirut, Lebanon.
BLAST, Esthétique de l’onde de choc, la FABRIQUE, Toulouse, France.
2023
Attaches parisiennes pour une poignée de portes, Villa de Belleville, Paris, France.
Beirut – Letters of Resistance, Sursock Museum, Beirut, Lebanon.
Ways of Vanishing BIENALSUR 2023, Sursock Museum, Beirut, Lebanon.
« Faire, nager et s’envoler », La Gaya Scienza, Nice, France.
Festival du film franco arabe, Noisy le Sec, France.
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, France.
Those Who Remain in the Dark, Art-Lab Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Beirut: Eternal Recurrence, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Canada.
Quand l'inconcevable prend forme, Galerie - Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France.
" Actes de langage 2/3 : Choralités", Maison Populaire of Montreuil, France.
Screening of Behind the Shield, AVIFF, Cannes and Marseille, France.
Screening of Behind the Shield, Écrans du réel, Lebanon.
Screening of Behind the Shield, cinéma l’Archipel, with Anne Barrault Gallery, Paris, France.
2022
Open Studios: Work in Slow Motion, Cité Internationale des arts, Paris, France.
Beyrouth, les artistes et la ville. Habiter les interstices, Michel Journiac gallery, Paris, France.
Sans Haches et Sans Fusils En collaboration avec le Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine Méca, France.
Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland: Parallel to her solo exhibition Building a Home with Time, Stéphanie Saadé is putting together a program of films by Lebanese artists entitled A Night in Beirut. Sirine Fattouh and Stéphanie Dadour, Marwan Moujaes, Roy Samaha and Maha Yammine have been invited to show a selection of their films, arranged in a weekly programme.
2021
a yellow sun a black sun, curated by Karina el Helou, at Martch art project, Istanbul, Turkey.
The Feelings We Wear, Objective Gallery, Shanghai, China.
Everyone is the creator of one's own faith, with AD Leb, Al Tabbal Building in Sursock, Beirut, Lebanon.
Before the Cypress Broke, with Beirut Art Residency, Void Gallery, Derry, Ireland.
2020
Game of Goose, Curator Stéphanie Saadé, City SALTS (Box), Basel, Switzerland.
Beirut: Year Zero, Arthaus, Beirut, Lebanon.
PARIS : Beyrouth 24h pour le Liban, Institut du monde arabe, Paris, France.
Qalqalah قلقلة : plus d’une langue, CRAC Occitanie, Sète, France.
Fonction Critique 2, Aperto lieu d’art, Montpellier, France.
Hobby at any price! Programming of artists’ films as part of the 31st Rennes metropolis Travelling film festival 2020, Auditorium du Frac Bretagne, 19 avenue André Mussat, Rennes, France.
2019
What can a dot become?Akinci Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
From Flood to Flight; Myths, Songs, and Other Stories, curated by Elena Sorokina, Galerie Premier Regard, Paris, France.
An intimate landscape, Curated by Marco Trulli, MACRO – Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome, Italy.
Beirut Art Fair 2019, represented by Letitia Gallery.
Contemporary Istanbul with STUDIOCUR/ART, Istanbul, Turkey.
C’est Beyrouth, Institut des Cultures d’Islam, Paris, France.
Vices and Validations, Institut français de Beyrouth, Beirut, Lebanon.
Contested landscapes, emergent archives, the Orient-Institut Beirut, Lebanon.
2018
La Nuit à l'écran, Centre Pompidou Metz, France.
"Résonance - partie 2", Frac Normandie Rouen, France.
Festival Image de ville, Marseille, France.
Festival d'art vidéo,La Fabrique des Arts, Carcassonne, France.
Novembre Numérique: Multimedia walk in the medina of Sousse, Tunisia.
2017
HOME BEIRUT. SOUNDING THE NEIGHBORSat MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy.
Partitions (Performances), Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris, France.
MOUSSEM CITIES: BEIRUT, Kaaistudio's, Brussels, Belgium.
Paysages et portraitsat Musée National Public d'Art Moderne et Contemporain d'Alger - MAMA, Algiers, Algeria.
The Perfect Arab Artist, Arab Cartoon festival, De Warande, Belgium.
Images du dessaisissement, Photomed 2017, Villa Méditerranée, Marseille, France.
Video Works 2017, organized by Ashkal Alwan, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
2016
City and City, Parson's street front gallery, New York, United States.
AVIS, Artistic intervention in the Lebanese newspaper L’Orient le Jour on April 30, Work on Paper, Curator Amanda Abi Khalil, Temporary Art Platform.
Arab Territories, Constantine Capital of Arab Culture 2015, El Khalifa Palace of Culture, Constantine, Algeria.
19th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland.
2014
Grand café - Centre d’art contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, France.
AVIFF, Cannes, France.
2013
Journeys through our Heritage, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
Errors Allowed, Mediterranea 16 Young Artists Biennial, Ancona, Italy.
Open Wounds, The Empty Quarter Gallery, Dubai, UAE.
22eInstants vidéo, Marseille, France.
2012
A Territory of Resistance, The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut, Lebanon.
# ComeTogether, With Edge of Arabia, Brick Lane, London.
Chkoun Ahna, National Museum of Carthage, Tunisia.
2011
3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Art Sale Brunch, The Hangar - Umam D&R, Dahiyeh, Lebanon.
Censures. Baiser la lune, Galerie Emilie Bannwarth, Paris, France.
Saison Vidéo, Roubaix, France.
2010
5th Biennal of Bourges, Panorama for young creation, Bourges, France.
Counting Thoughts, The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut, Lebanon.
Festival international des Très Courts, Forum des Images, Paris, France.
SESIFF-Seoul international Extreme-Short Image & Film Festival, Seoul, Korea.
2009
Fonction critique, quelques apparitions diversement manifestées, APERTO, Montpellier, France.
Exposure 2009, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
Parcours mixtes, Galerie Michel Journiac, Paris, France.
Pol/A, Nivet-Carzon Gallery, Paris, France.
2008
Home Works IV: A Forum on Cultural Practices, Al Madina Theatre and Métropolis Cinema, Beirut, Lebanon.
Home? Figures des migrations, Villa des Tourelles Gallery, Nanterre, France.
Jeune création, Espace Charlie Parker - Grande Halle of la Villette, Paris, France.
Perdu / Gagné, Photos et Légendes Festival, Théâtre du Fil de l’eau, Pantin, France.
...né.à Beyrouth Festival, Empire Cinemas, Beirut, Lebanon.
Cinemed international Mediterranean Film Festival, Montpellier, France.
P’Silo - Images Contre Nature Festival, Marseille, France.
2007
Proliférer, Villa Savoye of Le Corbusier, Poissy, France.
...né.à Beyrouth Festival, Empire Cinemas, Beirut, Lebanon.
Paris CinémaFestival, Filmothèque Quartier Latin, Paris, France.
2006
Le temps des appareils, Faux Mouvement, centre d'art contemporain, Metz, France.
Le temps des appareils, Le Cube, centre de création numérique, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.
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2025
Documentary Writing Workshop, Gobelins School, Paris, France
2023
Villa de Belleville, Paris, France.
Rochon Residence with Beirut Art Residency in collaboration with Saw Center, Ottawa, Canada.
2022-2023
Résidence 2/12, Cité internationale des Arts, Paris, France.
2018
UV “Utopies Visuelles”, Sousse, Tunisia.
2015
Constantine Capital of Arab Culture 2015, Constantine, Algeria.
2012
Cité Internationale of Arts in Paris, Al-Mansouria Foundation.
2011
3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art - Parallel Program, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2004
Studio residency at the Maison Internationale - Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, France.
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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.
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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
Panel talk at La Colonie in the framework of the exhibition ‘From Flood to Flight’, Paris, France.
Sirine Fattouh in conversation with Seloua Luste Boulbina and Mayssa Fattouh, Dar El Nimer, Beirut, Lebanon.
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
“BEIRUT Signs, Symbols, Memory (Memories) of a Metamorphosis”, The Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK), Lebanon.
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.
2011Middle Eastern Art, the local and global challenges, Beirut Art Fair, Beirut, Lebanon.
2008L’art contemporain : formes, références conceptuelles, limites, Hammamet, Tunisia.
2006
« Femme(s) et Arts Contemporain », la Halle Saint-Pierre, Paris, France.
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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.
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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.
