With a PhD from the Sorbonne (Paris), Gregory Buchakjian (Beirut, 1971) is director of the School of Visual Arts at the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA). He lives and works in Beirut. Political instability and ruin are among the issues tackled by his doctoral dissertation at the University of Paris IV Sorbonne. His research and work revolve around issues of the city and history, in Beirut, Lebanon and the Arab world. The landscape in mourning and the destruction of public space are frequently explored in the work of Gregory Buchakjian who has long worked on abandoned settlements in Beirut. Besides human and material losses, the explosion was also of great consequence to cultural heritage, the Sursock palace for example was almost completely destroyed and 25 works of art were severely damaged: ‘Hercule et Omphale d’après Artemisia Gentileschi’ (2021) shows one of them.
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