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Emilie Mansour is a cross-disciplinary artist, author and performer investigating the place of an artist citizen and the intersections of literature, bodies, memory and urban landscapes during extremely fast and violent changes. Her artistic practice is a constant self-reflection on her own place as a female artist exploring liminal spaces between writing, movement, research and more traditional art technics.
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Picture from Gravity ©Joe Kesrouani
Recent Work
Urbigraphy
“We are scribes of a scattered self, living fragments, as if the parts of the self were writing down the bits and ends of a perception never complete.”
— Etel Adnan, Of Cities & Women, 1993
Books
Noir Beyrouth
“Je crois que dans cette ville je pourrais tuer. Aimer Beyrouth c’est comme l’idée d’aimer prendre des coups.”
Emilie Thomas Mansour, Noir Beyrouth (Beirut/Paris: Tamyras, 2010)
“Sous l’écorce” - Nouvelle
Emilie Thomas Mansour, “Sous l’écorce” in Nuits Beyrouthines (Beirut/Paris: Tamyras, 2010)
“Beyrouth Est – Beyrouth Ouest: Frontières et transgressivité dans la littérature féminine de guerre au Liban”
Emilie Thomas Mansour, “Beyrouth Est – Beyrouth Ouest : Frontières et transgressivité dans la littérature féminine de guerre au Liban” in Augustin Lefebvre et Judit Maár (Eds.), Frontières et transferts culturels dans l’espace euro-méditerranéen (Editions L’Harmattan, Cahiers de la Nouvelle Europe, 2017), p. 111-119
“La recherche de nouveaux territoires dans les textes des Beirut Decentrists”
Emilie Thomas Mansour, “La recherche de nouveaux territoires dans les textes des Beirut Decentrists” in Rocío González Naranjo, Carmen Letz, Lauren Lydic, Juliane Rouassi, Amy D. Wells (Eds.), Déclinaisons des espaces féminins de l’après-conflit (Limoges: Pulim, Collection Espaces Humains, 2017), p. 133-145
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Conversations in the Commons
12 March 2020 - NYUAD ART GALLERY
5.30 - 7.30 pm
Join Emilie Mansour in NYUAD Art Gallery Commons for a casual and intimate conversation. Come with an interest or topic you would like to talk about with him. Possible subjects are the sensorial experience of viewing The Sovereign Forest and our physical interactions with the space and the various elements in the exhibition.