Nathalie Harb: artist talk and screening of multimedia installation
On Tuesday, April 8th at 6 PM, multidisciplinary artist and designer Nathalie Harb will give an artist talk, preceded by a screening of the multimedia installation Land Inventory.
Multidisciplinary artist and designer Nathalie Harb will give an artist talk and present her installation Land Inventory as part of her stay at Kamov Residency, Rijeka.
The artist talk, in which Nathalie Harb will present works that infiltrate public space to question ideas of security, home, and community, will be preceded by the screening of the immersive multimedia installation Land Inventory. Through a carefully curated inventory, field recordings from Lebanon’s most conflict-affected areas, and soundscapes created in collaboration with musician Youmna Saba, the work explores what remains, what has changed, and what is at risk of disappearing from Lebanon’s natural and cultural heritage—its flora, fauna, landmarks, and homes.
Nathalie Harb’s artist residency (March 19 – April 13, 2025) is organized by the Art Explora Foundation, The Island Club, Temporary Art Platform, and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka.
Reflecting on the past year through images, sounds, information, and news, Nathalie Harb creates an intimate archive of conflicting temporalities in the form of video or collage. „The past year felt both distant and immediate, shaped by the genocide in Palestine, the war in Lebanon, neofascism of Trump’s leadership reversing decades of progress“ says Harb. „Living outside Lebanon, in a western city largely unaffected by the physical violence of war, I found myself caught between personal and global time loops.“
Nathalie Harb is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based between Paris and Beirut, focused on rethinking public space from the perspective of everyday urban practitioners in conflict-affected cities. Her work is centered around well-being and spatial justice. It challenges notions of home, shelter, and agency through different practice formats, including public interventions, installations, and scenography, sited across urban and rural contexts in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. By adopting a collaborative, horizontal approach, Harb’s projects emphasize themes of safe space and equity, with authorship shared among a diverse range of design collaborators, including musicians, acoustic consultants, permaculture experts, environmental consultants, researchers and architects.
Nathalie’s work has been shown internationally and supported by initiatives such as Unesco’s Week of Sound, the American University of Beirut’s Neighborhood Initiative, the London Design Biennale, the European Research Council, Dubai Design Week, Beirut Design Week, the London Festival of Architecture, Soncities and the Temporary Art Platform. She has also been the recipient of several residencies, including ZKU Berlin, Residencia São João in Bresil, and La Cité Internationale des Arts-Paris.
Photo: Nathalie Harb, Land Inventory, 2024
