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Out of their comfort zone, artists who paint together naturally share the secrets of their practice while inevitably getting mutually influenced and challenged. We believe that when inhibition is lost, lightning strikes.
The Sleeping Productions are public live painting experiments by established and emerging, academics and outsider artists that typically last for a month. The participating artists immerse themselves for continuous 30 days in a pop-up shared studio in order to produce work on paper, all the while opening up their artistic processes to the public. Since its founding in Beirut 2019, the collective has done four productions with 10 Lebanese and Syrian artists.
Browse selections from each production and get in touch for more.
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Yoga Posture, (2019)
Mix media on Schut 350 gm paper
37.5 x 27.5 cm
Born in Swaida, Syria, in 1971; Ghylan Al Safadi graduated from the Department of Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Damascus University in 2002. He held solo exhibition and participated in group ones in Beirut, Swaida, and Damascus. Ghylan’s skills range from carving, to prints and shadow-theatre character design. He designed characters that were used in the Khezreer performance in Damascus in 2005. In 2008, he founded Al Qimma (The Peak), a specialised institute to teach theatre and art to children in his hometown, Swaida.
Works on Paper
All works on this website have been created during productions and are all original works on Schut acid-free cotton 350 gm paper.
Previously named Sleeping With The Enemy Production, The Sleeping Productions might pop up in your city anytime. To know more about where we’ve already “made our beds,” check our stories here, here, here, and here.
This initiative is administered by Fadi el Chamaa.
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