Impression, proche orient 4 | Lebanon

In July 2011, Tom Bogaert was the artist-in-residence at Zico House in Beirut, Lebanon. The residency was a personal, tropical, historical, and intellectual investigation combining art and non-art, the high and the low, and indeed the ordinary with the extraordinary.

The three main works featured in the solo show in September 2011 are ‘pavement popsicles’, ‘cracked windshields’ and a ‘mausoleum’ which are linked together through Bogaert's larger ongoing project ‘Impression, proche orient' (IPO).

Drawing on his experience as a European living and working in the East, it is the artist's intention to interpret understandings of the region - or lack thereof - from the inside out. As an outsider with the privilege of being given access to the inside, the aim is to use irony, gesture and narratives from the region by means of artistic production.