Caroline Tabet
Caroline Tabet (b. 1974, Beirut) is a photographer and video artist. After studying photography in Montpellier, she gained experience in Paris as an assistant photographer before moving back to Lebanon. Her practice explores the relationship between the urban landscape, human trajectories, and native environments as well as notions of memory and loss. Her photographic work draws on research in experimental techniques through the use of organic matter, analog enlargement, along with manual transformations and alterations in the darkroom. In her videos, she develops a dialogue between the distinct aspects of image and sound.
Together with Joanna Andraos, Tabet co-founded Engram Collective in 2003. They received the special jury prize for their installation Conversation at the 32nd Salon d’Automne of the Sursock Museum, Beirut, in 2017. In conjunction with her artistic practices, Tabet regularly conducts photography classes and workshops. Her work has been shown in solo and collective exhibitions. Her recent works were part of an AD Leb inaugural exhibition, Beirut, Lebanon (2021); Galerie Tanit (a project in collaboration with Clémence Cottard-Hachem), Beirut, Lebanon (2021); Les Rencontres de la Photographie Arles (as Engram Collective), Arles, France (2019); the Sursock Museum (as Engram Collective), Beirut, Lebanon (2017); Galleria Il Frantoio, Capalbio, Italy (2016); La Première et la Troisième Biennales des Photographes du Monde Arabe Contemporain, Paris, France (2015 / 2019); La Quatrième Image, Paris, France (2015) and Art Factum Gallery Beirut, Lebanon (2013).