This series of photograms comes within the continuity of the video and photography work ‘Sleep’ made in 2004. “Over a period of months, I attempted to capture the movement of my body and the passage of time while sleeping, on photographic paper. These camera-less images are at once imprints of a physical presence and records of immaterial time unfolding. They pay tribute to both Yves Klein’s body paintings ‘Anthropometries’ and Andy Warhol’s film ‘Sleep’.”

Born in Beirut in 1972, Lamia Joreige is a multidisciplinary visual artist and filmmaker. She studied at Rhode Island School of Design and, since the mid-1990s, became a key figure in the generation of post-war artists who intertwined new practices. Her art tackles the relation between autobiographical and individual stories and collective memory, using archive and fictional narratives. In 2009, Joreige co-founded with Sandra Dagher the Beirut Art Center.

Lamia Joreige has been showcased internationally and was among the artists selected for the first national participation of Lebanon at the 2007 Venice Art Biennale. Her works are part of museum collections such as Tate Modern, London, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Nicéphore Niépce Museum of Photography, Chalon-sur-Saône, Sharjah Art Foundation and Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha.