(About)
Joanne Choueiri (1986) is an architect, artist, and researcher from Beirut, Lebanon currently based in Brisbane, Australia. Her interest in memory, space, politics, and the archive has motivated her various works. Influenced by her own context and particularly the civil war, she recognised the importance of uncovering different facets of the past in an undocumented setting. Based on deeply rooted archival research, Choueiri proceeds to mix the architectural language of drawings, and models, with photography, and media installation producing stories of spaces. By exploring different scales of the city - the house, the building, the square- and their memory, she continuously seeks to create and recreate the archive, exposing aural and visual narratives from different contexts. As part of her PhD, she created a living archive commemorating demolished buildings in Beirut and Brisbane and the holes – physical and psychological traces- they leave behind.
