“This group exhibition” in Sursock’s Twin Galleries, “brings together recent work by artists, designers, and researchers concerned with mapping and exploring contemporary Beirut. Here, the city is at once a product of desire and fantasy, and a lived and embodied space.” This excerpt from the exhibition’s concept note proposes a reading of the city as being both container and contained. This duality is expressed by the typographic signature designed for the exhibition, and emphasized by the symmetrical spatial configuration of the Twin Galleries themselves.
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MTG-The City in the city-Twin galleries
Sursock’s Twin Galleries are located to the left and right of the Museum lobby.
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MTG-The City in the city-Poster
“The Selective Residence”, 2013, by Randa Mirza, was chosen as the main visual for the exhibition. Typographically, the poster uses a fittingly contemporary Arabic-Latin type duo designed by Pascal Zoghbi and published by the type foundry 29LT.
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MTG-The City in the city-Twin 1
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MTG-The City in the city-Wall text 01
The typographic scheme set by the exhibition’s main title travels across the rest of the exhibition design elements.
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MTG-The City in the city-Caption
A neutral grey paper is chosen as the backing for the exhibition captions.
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MTG-The City in the city-Bent caption
Some exhibition material required captions to be placed below the works which necessitated a particular bent backing format for easy visibility.
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MTG-The City in the city-Twin 2
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MTG-The City in the city-Wall text 02
The typographic scheme set by the exhibition’s main title travels across the rest of the exhibition design elements.
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MTG-The City in the city-Exhibition space
The “City in the City” exhibition is a perfect example of Sursock Museum’s interest in contemporary practices, as well as its ability to accommodate diverse media and multiple
