Artist Talk | Panos Aprahamian

Artist Talk | Panos Aprahamian

Blending fiction with documentary realism, the work takes inspiration from the figure of the Vanguard to explore the political consciousness of a generation born after the so-called End of History. Initiated in 2020 during Aprahamian’s residency in Boiçucanga, Brazil, it draws on Posadism—a synthesis of Marxism, apocalypticism, and ufology—to examine diasporic existence, the intersecting crises of family, identity, and masculinity, and the meaning of political engagement in an era shaped by climate collapse and the rise of reactionary forces.

The talk will be moderated by the curator Marie-Nour Hechaime.

Panos Aprahamian (b.1987, Beirut) is a Lebanese writer, filmmaker, and media artist based in Berlin. His work explores the spectral presence of the past and the future in bodies, landscapes, cultural practices, and social relations. His climate-fiction documentary-essay Odorless Blue Flowers Awake Prematurely won the Ecumenical Prize at the 68th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. His auto-ethnographic short This Haunting Memory That Is Not My Own won the Jury Award for Best Visual Captivation of Dystopian Existence at the 7th Festival Internacional Signos da Noite as part of their Cinema in Transgression competition. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Audiovisual Creation from the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts and an MA in Documentary Film from the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. In 2018, he was a Home Workspace Program fellow at Ashkal Alwan (Beirut), and between 2019 and 2021, he taught at the American University of Beirut.