Walid Sadek

Walid Sadek uses poetic and metaphoric language to evoke on post war Lebanon.{{cite web |url=http://www.aucklandtriennial.com/artists/walidsadek.asp |title= Walid Sadek |author= |date= |publisher= Auckland Triennial |accessdate=23 March 2012}}

In 1999, he produced Bigger than Picasso a tiny and unexpected book using word and image to criticize a political situation in the country.{{cite web |url=http://www.orient-institut.org/English/EventsDetails.aspx?pageid=1749 |title=Word and Image in Contemporary Book Art in Lebanon: Walid Sadek's "Fi annani akbar min Picasso" |author= |year=2008 |publisher=Orient-Institut |accessdate=23 March 2012}}

Sadek, who has regularly collaborated with Beirut-based artist centre Ashkal Alwan, has participated in numerous exhibitions and events worldwide. In 2010, he presented his first solo exhibition at the Beirut Art Center.{{cite web |url=http://www.artreview.com/forum/topic/show?id=1474022%3ATopic%3A1060094 |title=Walid Sadek: Place at Last |author=Jim Quilty |date=April 19, 2010 |publisher=Art Review |accessdate=23 March 2012 |archive-date=16 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216102840/https://artreview.com/forum/topic/show/ |url-status=dead }} He was guest editor of the academic journal Third Text on issue 117, July 2012, titled "Not, Not Arab".{{cite web |url=http://www.thirdtext.com/c/back-issues/117/ |title=Third Text. Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture |author= |date=July 2012 |publisher=Third Text |accessdate=5 October 2012}}

• Fi annani akbar min Picasso (bigger than Picasso), (Beirut, Ayloul Festival, 1999)
• Al-Kasal [Indolence] with Bilal Khbeiz (Beirut: The 3rd World, 1999)
• The Ruin to Come, Essays from a protracted war (Motto Books, Taipei Biennale, 2016){{cite web |url=http://www.mottodistribution.com/shop/the-ruin-to-come-essays-from-a-protracted-war-walide-sadek-motto-books.html |title=The Ruin to Come, Essays from a protracted war |author= |year=2016 |publisher=Motto Books |accessdate=26 February 2018}}

Collected essays, written in Beirut over a period of 10 years between 2006 and 2016, look at the conditions of living under a temporality theorized as the "protracted now" of a civil war, one structurally capable of perpetuating the conditions of its own dominance.

• Place at Last Walid Sadek, Beirut Art Center, 2010{{cite web |url= http://www.beirutartcenter.org/exhibitions.php?exhibid=85&statusid=3 |title= Place at Last Walid Sadek |author= |year= 2010 |publisher= Beirut Art Center |accessdate= 23 March 2012 |archive-date= 29 May 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190529010428/http://www.beirutartcenter.org/exhibitions.php?exhibid=85&statusid=3 |url-status= dead }}
• Walid Sadek '"On the labour of missing", Galerie Tanit, Beirut, 2012{{cite web |url=http://www.galerietanit.com/show.php?it=bios/walidsadek/labourofmissing |title=Galerie Tanit – Walid Sadek |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date= |publisher=Galerie Tanit |accessdate=5 January 2013}}

• Ashkal Alwan – Hamra Street Project, Beirut, 2000{{cite web |url=http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/nafas/articles/2009/kaelen_wilson_goldie/images/03_walid_sadek |title=Ashkal Alwan – Hamra Street Project, 2000 |author= |date= |publisher=Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) |accessdate=23 March 2012}}

• Contemporary Arab Representations, Beirut/Lebanon, Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2002 {{cite web |url= http://www.wdw.nl/event/contemporary-arab-representations-beirutlebanon/ |title= Contemporary Arab Representations, Beirut/Lebanon |author= |date= |publisher= Witte de With |accessdate=23 March 2012}}

• Home Works III – A Forum of Cultural Practices, Beirut, 2005{{cite web |url=http://www.ashkalalwan.org/homeworks.aspx?id=3&sid=2 |title= Home Works III |author= |date= |publisher=Ashkal Alwan |accessdate=23 March 2012}}

• Out of Beirut, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, 2006{{cite web |url=http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/out-of-beirut/about/ |title=Out of Beirut |year=2006 |publisher=Modern Art Oxford |accessdate=23 March 2012 |archive-date=18 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140618224322/http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/out-of-beirut/about/ |url-status=dead }}
• Foreword, Pavilion of Lebanon, 52nd Venice Biennale, 2007{{cite web |url=http://www.lebanonvenicebiennale.com/artists.htm |title=Pavilion of Lebanon: Artists |year=2007 |publisher=Pavilion of Lebanon |accessdate=23 March 2012 |archive-date=31 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131222420/http://lebanonvenicebiennale.com/artists.htm |url-status=dead }}
• Home Works IV, Galerie Sfeir Semler, Beirut, 2008{{cite web |url= http://www.sfeir-semler.de/last/Homework/homeworks.htm |title= HOMEWORKS IV |year=2008 |publisher=Sfeir Semler |accessdate=23 March 2012}}

• Lebanon Now, Darat al Funun, Amman, 2008{{cite web |url=http://www.daratalfunun.org/main/activit/curentl/art_lebanon/a.htm |title=Art Now in Lebanon. Curated by Andree Sfeir Semler |publisher=Darat Al Funun |accessdate=23 March 2012}}

• The 4th Auckland Triennial, Auckland, 2010 {{cite web |url=http://www.aucklandtriennial.com/artists/default.asp |title= The 4th Auckland Triennial |publisher= Auckland Triennial |accessdate=23 March 2012}}

• Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot for a Biennial, Sharjah, 2011{{cite web |url=http://www.sharjahart.org/biennial/sharjah-biennial-10/artists-participants |title=Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot for a Biennial |year=2011 |publisher=Sharjah Art Foundation |accessdate=23 March 2012}}

• Seeing is Believing, KW Berlin, 2011{{cite web |url=http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/nafas/articles/2011/seeing_is_believing/img/walid_sadek/ |title=Nafas / Seeing is believing / Images |author= |date=September 2011 |publisher=Nafas Art Magazine |accessdate=7 August 2012}}
• Home Works 6 Exhibition, Artheum, Beirut, 2013{{cite web |url=http://ashkalalwan.org/events/home-works-6-exhibition/ |title=HOME WORKS 6 EXHIBITION – CURATED BY TAREK ABOU EL FETOUH |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date=May 2013 |website= |publisher=Ashkal Alwan |accessdate=15 May 2013}}
• Unnamed exhibition with Gheith Al-Amine, Aissa Deebi, Bassam Kahwagi, Jacko Restikian and Shawki Youssef, Galerie Tanit, Beirut, 2014{{cite web |url=http://www.lebtivity.com/event/galerie-tanit-naila-kettaneh-kunigk-invite-you-to-an-art-exhibition-by-gheith-al-amine-aissa-deebi-bassam-kahwagi-jacko-restikian-walid-sadek-and-shawki-youssef |title=Galerie Tanit & Naila Kettaneh Kunigk invite you to an Art Exhibition by Gheith Al-Amine, Aissa Deebi, Bassam Kahwagi, Jacko Restikian, Wali |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date=2014 |website= |publisher=Lebtivity |accessdate=13 June 2015}}

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