"Sites of Life"
This event marks the opening of "Sites of Life", an exhibition that brings together Palestinian and Lebanese artists whose work reimagines and extends everyday life beyond the human through posthumanist perspectives. The opening night will introduce the exhibition’s central themes and offer visitors the opportunity to experience the works on display while reflecting on the artists’ approaches to life, resistance, and creative storytelling. The event will serve as an open and welcoming gathering, inviting the community to explore the exhibition, connect with the curator, and celebrate the launch of the show.
NOTE: In return for being able to fund our vibrant exhibitions and events, we must charge a fair £5 ticket price to help offset some of the gallery running and overhead expenses. With a large percentage of our public and private sponsorship eliminated, your gift enables us to continue presenting idea-stimulating art and culture events. Thank you immensely for helping independent not-for-profit art spaces like ours.
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SPEAKERS
Ségolène Ragu (b. 1990) is a French-Lebanese photographer based in Beirut. She works on long-term projects, documenting the memory of places and the impact of crises and war on daily life in Lebanon. She holds a Master’s degree in Communication and has completed a documentary photojournalism workshop in Paris. Her work has been exhibited in Lebanon, France, Belgium and Qatar and she took part in the Samir Kassir Foundation x World Press Photo masterclass in 2025 in Lebanon.
Masa Nazzal is an artist and researcher based in London. Her practice engages with traditional Palestinian cross-stitch, tatreez, drawing thematic and stylistic inspiration from the craft. Through this language of thread, she explores the experience of diaspora, using fragmentation to think about what is broken and what is still emerging.
Aya Chouaib is a Lebanese multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and founder of X Vendetta, a media initiative debunking war + climate propaganda and exploring the intersections of design, memory, and resistance. Working across sound, image, and installation, her practice traces how landscapes bear the weight of war, exile, and return. Through X Vendetta, Aya extends her artistic language into digital activism, designing investigative visual posts and producing documentaries that expose the political ecologies of conflict and climate. Her work bridges the poetic and the political, insisting that art can be both an archive and a weapon of truth.