por Hugo Virgilio | maio 25, 2017 | Cultura, Especial Refugiados Sírios
Leila Lak “Every time someone goes outside to play while I work I feel like crying,” says Mohammed, a 10-year old boy from Aleppo, who with his family fled the Syrian war to seek refuge in Lebanon. Once in Lebanon, their lives changed. They moved into illegal...
por Hugo Virgilio | maio 25, 2017 | Cultura
Leila Lak Carla Barchini, a Lebanese-Greek artist, moved with her family to Europe during the Lebanese civil war of 1975. Like many in her generation growing up in exile she dreamt of a day that she would return to her homeland. When she finally moved back in 2013 she...
por Hugo Virgilio | maio 25, 2017 | Cultura
Leila Lak The Blues and Beirut are not two words you often see in one sentence, but the first Lebanese Blues band Wanton Bishops are adding blues to the eclectic music scene in Beirut. Ben Holman a British documentary filmmaker living in Brazil followed their journey...
por Hugo Virgilio | maio 25, 2017 | Cultura
Leila Lak The issue of sexuality in Islam is a delicate and somewhat controversial topic but the producers of a new London art show entitled Unbreakable Rope: Islam and Sexuality, say controversy was not the reason behind the show. “We wanted to look at an issue that...
por Hugo Virgilio | maio 25, 2017 | Cultura, Entrevista
Leila Lak When Felipe Ufo was growing up in Leblon he thought he would be an economist but then in 2004 the tsunami hit Asia and things changed. He found himself going with other surfer friends to help and to film the consequences of the horrific tragedy. Whilst most...
por Hugo Virgilio | maio 24, 2017 | Cultura, Entrevista, Sem categoria
LEILA LAK INTERVIEWS TWO ARTISTS PARTICIPATING IN THE 32° BIENNIAL OF SÃO PAULO AND REVEALS ITS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CONTEMPORARY ART SCENARIO Leila Lak In the current political climate of Brazil, Latin America’s most important contemporary art fair, and the oldest,...
