CONTEMPORARY ART BY ELIAS MAROUN

Still Beautiful.
Still Broken.

For those who left. For those who stayed.

Elias Maroun · Photo Yoan Zoghbi, 2026

EXHIBITION

Still Beautiful. Still Broken.

After more than a decade producing cultural projects in Lebanon and abroad, Elias Maroun takes a one-time step into the foreground with his first solo show. Borrowing the graphic language of cigarette-pack warnings, the series diagnoses another kind of dependency: the one that binds the Lebanese to their country. Thirteen text works installed inside the exhibition room of Liza, a Beiruti address that is itself a kind of homecoming.

Venue: Liza Beirut
City: Achrafieh, Beirut
Dates: 16 – 31 July 2026
Prints: 13 works · signed & open editions

INSTALLATION VIEWS — LIZA, JULY 2026

Photography · Yoan Zoghbi

Visitor before the wall of thirteen text prints — OPENING RECEPTION — 16 JULY 2026

Still Beautiful. Still Broken. neon above the prints — OPENING RECEPTION — 16 JULY 2026

Visitor reading 'Living in Lebanon may result in chronic uncertainty' — OPENING RECEPTION — 16 JULY 2026

Visitor bathed in red light beneath the neon, looking up at the prints — OPENING RECEPTION — 16 JULY 2026

Guest turning back from the wall of thirteen diagnoses — OPENING RECEPTION — 16 JULY 2026

Guest at the vernissage in front of Severe Attachment — OPENING RECEPTION — 16 JULY 2026

Guest reading the prints from behind, framed by the neon — OPENING RECEPTION — 16 JULY 2026

Two guests in conversation beneath the neon — OPENING RECEPTION — 16 JULY 2026

Portrait of a guest in front of 'Being Lebanese abroad may result in never feeling at home' — OPENING RECEPTION — 16 JULY 2026

Couple reading the diagnoses together — OPENING RECEPTION — 16 JULY 2026

Visitor photographing the prints on her phone — OPENING RECEPTION — 16 JULY 2026

OPENING RECEPTION — 16 JULY 2026

From the interview — Agenda Culturel, July 2026

"Like many Lebanese, I left the country several times, convinced it was the last time. And like many others, I came back. At some point I realized this relationship with Lebanon resembled a dependency. You know that leaving is sometimes necessary, but something keeps pulling you back."

"The warnings no longer speak of tobacco; they speak of attachment, uncertainty, exhaustion, financial trauma, of the impossibility of turning the page."

— Elias Maroun, in conversation with Agenda Culturel

CLOSING DAY — LIZA, 31 JULY 2026

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