Mireille Kassar (Zahlé-Bequaa, 1963) is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and currently a member of the Sorbonne’s Research Centre in Plastic Arts. Her work includes film, sound, painting and drawing, as well as installation art. Themes such as distance, proximity, dispersion and time unfolding are major inspirations for her. Kassar treats her art as an expanded state of consciousness, operating beyond or beneath language. The video titled Children of Uzaï – Anti Narcissus (2014) was shot on a public beach. It shows children running towards the sea, an unchanging activity that this country can still offer, presenting to the eyes an almost dreamlike space, far from any deadly narrative.
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