Mai Ghoussoub

Title: Monsieur le President
Media: Sculpture (Aluminium, Plaster and Resin)
Date: August 2004
Dimensions: Height 83 cm x Diameter  53 cm

Artwork courtesy of the artist

Starting Bid: $500

Biography:
Born in Lebanon Mai Ghoussoub studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts /Lebanese University before graduating from AUB (American University of Beirut).
She moved to London in 1979 where she studied sculpture at Morley College (Henry Moore Studio) and co-founded Saqi Books.

Since the 1980's she has been combining her activities as an artist, a writer and a publisher: ' I write for my sculptures and I sculpt my ideas'. Her work has featured in many exhibitions including Under Different Skies, Copenhagen (1996), and Displaces, an installation on the theme of refugees at the Shoreditch Town Hall, London (1998). In 2000, she premiered ;'Divas' - an installation and theatrical performance - in Beirut, Paris, Newcastle and London.

In 2003, her installation 'What is the purpose of your viasit' was shown at the Fabrik in Berlin and she is working on an installation/performance Penelopeia/Shehrazade to be shown in Beirut and Athens in 2004-2005.

Leaving Beirut, Women & the Wars Within was published in 1997. In 1991, she wrote Postmodernism, The Arabs in a video clip (in Arabic) and in in 2000 she co-edited Imagined Masculinities: Male Identity and Culture in the Modern Middle East. She is co-editor of the cultural magazine ABWAB.