Marwa Arsanios

  • Marwa Arsanios, After Doxiadis, a proposal for a new social housing project (detail), 2013–, concrete models, publication, sound, archival ink-jet prints, cardboard model, film, dimensions variable.
    print May 2015

    Marwa Arsanios

    LIVING IN BEIRUT is increasingly difficult, because it is impossible to find a place to live. The city government has made a business out of selling building permits, and easily skirted laws allow for the indiscriminate construction of luxury skyscrapers. This is all happening in a place where real estate is ground zero for money laundering.

    Is there any space for imagining a different approach to development? If so, what would that look like? The subject of After Doxiadis, a proposal for a new social housing project, 2013–, is a series of city plans commissioned by the Lebanese government in

  • Brickmaking community outside of Guadalajara, Mexico, 2014. Photo: Oscar Murillo.
    print December 2014

    The Best Exhibitions of 2014

    TO TAKE STOCK OF THE PAST YEAR, ARTFORUM ASKED AN INTERNATIONAL GROUP OF ARTISTS TO SELECT THE SINGLE IMAGE, EXHIBITION, OR EVENT THAT MOST MEMORABLY CAPTURED THEIR EYE IN 2014.

    OSCAR MURILLO

    KIM GORDON

    LORETTA FAHRENHOLZ
    Broad City is the first TV show to fully exploit the comic potential of the gentrification of our minds.

    WOLFGANG TILLMANS

    LAURE PROUVOST
    This is an image from a book on Ferdinand Cheval’s Palais Idéal (1912). My family was recently seeking architectural inspiration for a museum that will be built when our lost granddad comes out of his conceptual tunnel. It has now been more than