Adham Al Dimashki
Adham Al Dimashki (14-4-1990) is a Lebanese visual artist and poet living and working in Beirut, Lebanon. A University lecturer in art therapy and self- development. He holds an MFA from the Lebanese university (2017), a diploma in the Art of Theater and Acting from the Modern Theater Art School (2013), and seven certificates in drama and art therapy. His poetry was published in the Arab world and translated to English, French, Armenian and German; and was subject to multiple poetry recitals in Lebanon, Armenia, Sudan, Jordan… An educational trainer on active teaching methods in the Arabic language. Al Dimashki won several prizes for his work: Gold medal for poetry (2009-2010 ) in Studio Al Fan, the leading Lebanese cultural TV program. First prize and gold medal (2008- 2009) for a short story in a competition organized by the Lebanese Ministry of Culture. Prepared and directed a series of documentaries between 2012-2019. He is currently preparing to finish a short film that he wrote and directed. His Acting career was marked by contributions with the legendary writer, director, and actor Mounir Abou Dibs with whom he played Macbeth and The Hour of the Wolf between 2013 and 2014. In his multidisciplinary work, Adham Al Dimashki is engaged in a profound investigation on the possible relations between life, memory, nostalgia and the power of now through poetical representations. He tries through words, paintings, images or his own body to retrieve what was erased or to hold what could survive. He digs through his own biography, his childhood, his village and family to make visible with no restrictions the road on which, the nomad who he is, continues to walk.
