Until 3 February 2026, Fann À Porter is hosting Printed Matter, a contemplative group exhibition that features four distinctive artistic voices: El3attar Film Collective, Cynthia Zahar, Georges Yammine, and Mohammad Al Hawajri. The show brings together photography and mixed-media art pieces accompanied by an interactive musical work by Aoun that invites visitors to contribute their memories to a generative soundscape.
At the heart of Printed Matter is an engagement with memory, conflict, material histories, and resilience, as each artist reconfigures found images, objects, and fragments into evocative visual narratives.
El3attar Film Collective is a collaborative platform that blends art and activism through photographic practice. In this exhibition, their Faces of Solidarity series revives Palestinian portraiture. It honours lived experiences of resistance, heritage, and identity by presenting subjects in traditional poses and attire that foreground dignity and cultural richness.
Artist and designer Cynthia Zahar contributes Shuhud works (Arabic for “Witnesses”). They assemble travel documents, photographs, personal objects, and archival fragments into layered constructs that prompt reflection on the histories embedded within everyday materials. Her work often bridges personal narrative and collective memory.
Lebanese artist Georges Yammine‘s practice intersects photography and a poetic sensibility. In Printed Matter, he presents macrophotographs of stray bullets, objects he has been collecting since childhood. The photos transform these remnants of conflict into visual testimonies of change and passage of time, framing them as silent narrators of their own histories.
Palestinian multidisciplinary artist Mohammad Al Hawajri is known for his witty and incisive visual language. His satirical photography, often centred on the cactus as a symbol, uses metaphor and irony to explore notions of persistence, patience, and survival in Palestinian life, turning familiar landscapes and motifs into layered commentaries on resilience.
Complementing the visual artworks, Aoun, a Brooklyn-based producer and songwriter of Palestinian and Jordanian descent, presents an interactive sound piece commissioned for this exhibition. It engages visitors directly: participants speak into a microphone to recall memories, which are then resampled into a generative composition woven into the exhibition’s sound environment.
To get more information about Printed Matter, please visit the official web page of the show.
In addition, you might be interested in viewing Remnants by Kais Salman and The Choreographer of Letters by Nja Mahdaoui.
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