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“This project was born from a simple question: why is it so hard to let go of Lebanon?”

— Elias Maroun

Elias Maroun — Still Beautiful. Still Broken., Liza Beirut, 2026

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

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
Detail — visitor in profile, red room
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

Visitor framed in the doorway before the neon and the prints
CLOSING DAY — 31 JULY 2026
Dancer mid-movement before the wall of thirteen prints
CLOSING DAY — 31 JULY 2026
Dancer with arms raised beneath the neon
CLOSING DAY — 31 JULY 2026
Dancer reaching towards the neon sign
CLOSING DAY — 31 JULY 2026
Dancer in profile before 'Being Lebanese abroad may cause persistent nostalgia'
CLOSING DAY — 31 JULY 2026
Dancer arched back in red light before two prints
CLOSING DAY — 31 JULY 2026
Dancer turning in the red-lit room
CLOSING DAY — 31 JULY 2026
Dancer mid-spin, hair in motion, beneath the neon
CLOSING DAY — 31 JULY 2026
Elias Maroun

Elias Maroun. Beirut, 2026

The Artist

Elias Maroun.

CULTURAL PRODUCER  ·  MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST

Elias Maroun is a Lebanese cultural producer, multidisciplinary artist and architect working across visual art, graphic design, architecture and live experiences. His practice explores contemporary culture through storytelling, design and conceptual art.

For more than a decade, he has conceived and produced concerts, festivals, exhibitions and cultural events in Lebanon and internationally. In 2013, he founded KREM Productions, a Beirut-based cultural production studio. He is also the co-founder of Beit Tabaris, an artist residency in Beirut, and One For Lebanon, an initiative supporting Lebanon's independent cultural sector.

In 2026, Elias Maroun presented Still Beautiful. Still Broken., his first solo exhibition and the inaugural chapter of Still Home, an ongoing artistic project exploring contemporary Lebanon through conceptual art. Borrowing the visual language of cigarette warning labels, the series reflects on attachment, nostalgia, uncertainty and the complex relationship many Lebanese maintain with their country.

Selected practice

2026
Still Beautiful. Still Broken. — Contemporary Art project
2025
Lebanon. Production Lead — Baalbeck International Festival, L'Orient-Le Jour Festival, Red Sea International Film Festival (Jeddah)
2023
Montreal. Production Director — Les Francos de Montréal, Montreal International Jazz Festival, Just for Laughs
2013–2020
Beirut Open Stage / Beirut Open Space — Live Venue Founder / Manager
2013
Founded KREM Productions in Beirut
2010
Masters in Architecture — Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA)

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