Pascal Hachem will be in conversation with artist and producer Asad Raza about the works in his current exhibition at The Mosaic Rooms and about his creative practice.

Hachem’s solo, The show has a long title that I don’t recall anymore, is an ambitious exhibition of new work composed of new sculptural installations and conceived in response to The Mosaic Rooms gallery. In this new body of work, displayed for the first time, the artist interrogates experiences of his home city of Beirut. Facing life in a city of both daily instability and overwhelming fragmentation how does an individual or society remember their past? The search for traces is recurrent in these works, as Hachem questions the meaning of what we remember and why. Pascal Hachem will talk about these themes and his process of developing the works for this exhibition.

Pascal Hachem was born in 1979, Lebanon. He is an artist who conceives each work as a discrete experience, often making interventions in urban spaces and creating sculptural installations in gallery settings. He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions internationally. Alongside his artistic practice he is co founder of acclaimed product design studio 200grs with Rana Haddad.

Asad Raza is an artist and producer whose recent projects include Root sequence. Mother tongue at the 2017 Whitney Biennial, the home show at his apartment in New York, and installations at Frieze Projects (London, 2015), and the Ljubljana Graphic Art Biennial (2015). He served as a dramaturge for Philippe Parreno’s H{N)YPN(Y}OSIS at Park Avenue Armory, (New York, 2015), and the group shows A stroll through a fun palace (Venice Architecture Biennale, 2014), and Solaris Chronicles (LUMA Arles, 2014).

FREE, rsvp@mosaicrooms.org