PRODUCTIONS
Each SWTEP production begins with a proposition and its own protocol.
The record below documents the situations created, the people who entered them, and what emerged.
PROD 01
SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY
KAF Gallery · Beirut
April–May 2019
Participants
Fadi Elchamaa
Semaan Khawam
Ghylan Safadi
Three artists shared a public studio for 21 days, working side by side under equal conditions.
The first SWTEP proposition was simple: work with the enemy rather than remove them.
PROD 02
RAW
KAF Gallery · Beirut
June 2019
Participants
Sara Chaar
Fadi Elchamaa
Semaan Khawam
Three artists entered another 21-day public production.
Painting, conversation, poetry, visitors, and collaborative work were allowed to enter the same space without being separated into disciplines.
PROD 03
MAMNOU3 EL TEHZIB No Politeness
Beirut
February–March 2020
Artists
Petram Chalach
Louma Rabah
Aya Kazoun
Semaan Khawam
Shawki Youssef
Ghylan Safadi
Mansour El Habre
Anny Kurkdjian
Fadi Elchamaa
Curators
Lynn Modallal
Zalfa Halabi
Nine painters and two curators shared one studio for three weeks to paint and talk in public.
Different practices, positions, and personalities were placed in one working field without requiring agreement.
PROD 04
TABA3OD Distancing
Beirut
July 2020
Participants
Fadi Elchamaa
Semaan Khawam
Collaborators
Lea Skayem · video
Amer Chamaa · music
Two artists went offline and shared a studio for 21 days.
Withdrawal from the outside became the condition through which proximity, distance, and collaboration were tested.
PROD 05
HEY YOU · يا أيها
Beirut
December 2022
Artists with distinct practices and visual languages were brought into one collective situation rather than organized around a common aesthetic.
Daily poetry readings introduced another form of presence: the relationship between what we see and what we say.
PROD 06
SON OF
Lynn Modallal Gallery · Beirut
July 2024
Core participants
Fadi Elchamaa
Amer Chamaa
Jakub Szczesny
Malek Rizkallah
David Triana
Lea Skayem
Semaan Khawam
Al Buraqi
Sam Ghazal
Joelle Jabbour
Shadi Abi Chacra
Andrew Hraiz
Nour Choukeir
Annelise Franjou
Artists, musicians, performers, and members of the public joined throughout the production.
A father and son worked publicly for ten consecutive days, inviting different generations and disciplines into the process.
Painting, masks, music, performance, and participation became one shared production.
PROD 07
UNTIL PEACE
Initiated September 2024
Participants
Fadi Elchamaa
Amer Chamaa
A continuous collaborative painting initiated under one condition:
the work continues until peace in the Levant.
The duration is determined not by the artists, but by the condition itself.
NOTE
SWTEP records productions as evidence of what occurred.
The archive does not attempt to resolve the disagreements, negotiations, failures, accidents, or relationships that produced them.
Those remain part of the work.