About MMXX

MMXX questions a territory’s capacity to generate progress.
2020 marks the year where the Universal Exhibition will be held in Dubai and in the Arab World for the first time. By choosing to write 2020 in roman letters, MMXX questions the transition of innovation centres in the Latin and Arab world in their quest for progress.

From the port of Beirut to Damascus street lies a zone that has been active since the beginning of mankind and that knows significant development projects such as the Beirut Digital District that will host pavilion MMXX’s first edition.

MMXX aims to question progress in different value systems.
For its first edition, André Chami, the pavilion’s director, has invited various media artists to create immersive in-situ pieces.
Represented by the French gallery Michel Rein, the young sculptor Edgar Sarin will showcase a new sculptural ensemble produced during his residency in Beirut. Singer-songwriter Sara Boy will for her part present urotour, fragments of storytelling in an acoustic, digital and analog piece.

About the director

André Chami, is a French artist and engineer from Ecole Centrale Paris of Lebanese descent.
His main topic of research is progress and innovation. He aims to generate a dialogue between art and innovation centers. André’s work focuses on museology, how we frame, archive and present our collective history. His concept lecarrérayonnant was developed around his thoughts on the structures of mankind.

After organising and taking part in several out-of-musems art initiatives such as WW on the Palais de Tokyo’s esplanade, or the exhibition Décor curated by Tino Sehgal, Dorothea Von Hatelmann and Asad Raza at the Boghossian Foundation in Brussels, André worked on the development of an in-situ art platform onlyonlviii during smartESA’s acceleration programme in Beirut.