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Lara Baladi born 1969 in Beirut,<br />
Lebanon is an acclaimed Egyptian-<br />
Lebanese photographer, archivist<br />
and multimedia <strong>art</strong>ist. She was<br />
educated in Paris and London and<br />
currently lives in Cairo. Baladi<br />
exhibits and publishes worldwide.<br />
Her body of work encompasses<br />
photography, video, visual<br />
montages/collages, installations,<br />
architectural constructions,<br />
tapestries, sculptures and even<br />
perfume.Much of her work<br />
reflects her "concerns with<br />
Egypt's extremely alarming<br />
sociopolitical context.<br />
Work<br />
Since 1997, she has been a<br />
member of the Arab Image<br />
Foundation (AIF), for which she<br />
directs magazine editorials and<br />
curates exhibitions and <strong>art</strong>ist<br />
residencies.She curated the <strong>art</strong>ist<br />
residency Fenenin el Rehal<br />
(Nomadic Artists) in Egypt's White<br />
Desert in 2006 and p<strong>art</strong>icipated in<br />
workshops and conferences<br />
around the world. Baladi is<br />
represented by the Townhouse<br />
Gallery of Contemporary Art in<br />
Cairo and IVDE Gallery in Dubai.<br />
Baladi received a Japan Foundation<br />
Fellowship in 2003 to research<br />
manga and anime in Tokyo. Among<br />
other global locations, she<br />
p<strong>art</strong>icipated in the VASL residency<br />
program in Karachi, Pakistan in<br />
2010. The breadth and variety of<br />
Baladi’s international experience<br />
influences her use of iconography<br />
drawn from numerous cultures.<br />
Photo-montage<br />
In 2000, she p<strong>art</strong>icipated in The<br />
Desert, a group exhibition at<br />
Fondation C<strong>art</strong>ier in Paris with Om<br />
El Dounia (Mother of the World), a<br />
vast mosaic of photographs with<br />
highly saturated colors.This piece,<br />
while playful and with many<br />
references to pop culture, is also an<br />
exploration of the Biblical story of<br />
creation.<br />
In 2007, Baladi presented a work<br />
called Justice for the Mother, which<br />
depicts leaders of Arab countries.<br />
She considers it p<strong>art</strong> of a series she<br />
calls "anthropological<br />
photography," where she<br />
assembles series of photographs<br />
that tell a larger story. In this piece,
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