Tony Chakar

Tony Chakar é um arquiteto libanês nascido em Beirute em 1968. apresentações de sua obra incluem A Retroactive Monument for a Chimerical City, na Ashkal Alwan, em Beirute (1999); All That Is Solid Melts into Air, na Ashkal Alwan, em Beirute (2000); Four Cotton Underwear for Tony, na Ashkal Alwan, em Beirute, na TownHouse Gallery, no Cairo, e também em Barcelona (Tàpies Foundation) e em Roterdã (Witte de With) onde participou do projeto “Contemporary Arab Representations”…

…To answer that particular and seemingly simple question, one is tempted to resort to Bakhtin, who argued that "every word is directed toward an answer and cannot escape the profound influence of the answering word it anticipates" (1). But that, in turn, brings up two important issues: the nature of the artistic production itself and its potential receptors.

His essays investigate the way this city’s turbulent past haunts the consciousness of its inhabitants and continues to shape its architecture today. In his texts, it is often hard to tell when historical knowledge blurs into myth and the contortions of memory…