Biography Michel Lasserre
Michel Lasserre (Auch, France, 1947) studied architecture in Paris. Michel Lasserre and Paola Yacoub have been associates since 1996. They work on the expressiveness of territories and their aesthetic and political implications. They took part in the Ayloul Festival 2001, in Beirut, where they showed their installation work Al Manazer, in the collective exhibition Stand der Dinge (Teil 1), Kunst-Werke, Berlin, 2000, and in the 7th Venice Architecture Biennial, 2000, where they presented their installation work Garden of Eden, Monument for Beirut. They exhibited Monuments of an Unfinished War at the Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris, 2000, and they were residents at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart from November 2001 to March 2002, where they prepared an exhibition called The Next Village in February 2002, which was also shown in Paris at the Galerie Claude Samuel in February.
H n at8|��|from Tehran 1, Witte de With, Rotterdam; and News from Tehran 2, in Kunstenfestivaldesart,.Brussels (all 2004) and Group exhibitions include Are you ready for TV? MACBA, Barcelona; Media city Seoul 2010 (both 2010); Photocairo4. The long shortcut; La otra, Bogota; and Art Sheffield 08. Yes, no, other options (all 2008); How to live together/Como viver junto. 27th Sao Paulo biennial (2007); Interrupted histories. Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana; The Unhomely, 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville, (both 2006).