Mo Maria Sarkis

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Artist Statement:
Mo Maria Sarkis started her journey as an artist in 2004, initially using painting as her medium. She continued work on painting in various exhibitions in Lebanon. After a few years, she took up different artistic residencies in France and Turkey that prompted her to use mediums other than painting. During her time in these countries, Mo Maria began to investigate the power of languages and dialogue as well as the concept of immortality. Her last residency in Paris in 2010 allowed her to explore the codependency of humans and machines during a rush hour at the Paris Metro (Recording Movement1). In 2011, she returned to Lebanon to later took part in a 2013-2014 program in which Ashkal-Alwan hosted foreign artists for their residency. Now her practice has evolved to using a multi-media approach involving installations, video, and photography. Mo Maria currently inquires into the extension of linguistics that has moved beyond humans to the communication used by various forms of machinery.
Mo Maria hopes to continue to explore the language of machinery and its place in the modern world. She wants to question the political and aesthetic divide of publi...

Contemporary Visual Artist from Lebanon ,

2021 Attended Home-Work Space Program by Ashkal Alwan, More about Ashkal-Alwan Lebanese Plastic Arts Association:
https://ashkalalwan.org/press.php
"HWP was initially developed to explore trans-disciplinary, critical models of art-focused study in Lebanon and the wider Arab region."

2014-2013 attended a post-graduate art program with Ashkal-Alwan
The HWP 2013-14, which is the third edition of Home Workspace Program, led by resident professors Jalal Toufic and Anton Vidokle under the title "Creating and Dispersing Universes that Work without Working" see more on the program here.

Trained in Interior Architecture , Then in Plastic Arts (University Diploma).

>>>>Art events and exhibitions ( selection )>>>>


-2021 August collective exhibition at Batroun Art Festival, Lebanon

-2021-2020 Working on a new Serie of paintings entitled ”Catharsis”: https://www.zealous.co/momariasarkis/project/Catharsis/

-2019 August Collective exhibition in Aley, Lebanon

-2018 8-12 November Participant of TASHWEESH, encounters and conversations in Art And Feminism,
small scholarship by Goethe Institute, Cairo, Egypt

-2018 October Collective Exhibition by Organizer/Artist/Curator Jasmina Runevska Todorovska in City Prilep in Republic of Macedonia

-2018 June ” View Of Paved Land” Experimental Poem by MO MARIA Published in English and Arabic – Twined with a text by Artist Phyllida Barlow, “in conversation with Vincent Fecteau in Bomb Magazine”, thanks to art collective "Nile Sunset Annex / ملحق غروب على النيل (NSA)",
Check Mophradat Online Library, Glossary of Terms, Nile Sunset Annex, Pages 16-20:
http://mophradat.org/library/

-2017-2019 working on new serie of paintings “UNKNOWN TERRITORIES – SENSE OF SELF” ongoing!

-2016 , 7-8-9 October “Lets Play Hopstcoch” Interactive Art Installation + 3rd Projection of “Complex,Fluxes2”
took part in a 3 days Art Festival, organized by Art Co...