THE EXHIBITION:
Tanya Traboulsi, the recipient of the 2025 V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography, is a Beirut-based photographer whose work explores themes of belonging, identity, and memory, using the image as a narrative tool. Her practice often combines her photography with material from her family archive, both of which frequently center around Beirut as a significant recurring theme.
After leaving Lebanon in the 1980s during the civil war and spending years longing for the shores from which she departed, her latest project is a celebration of the city where she grew up. In Beirut, Recurring Dream, she returns to the city she left as a child. Through photographs and archives, she explores Beirut as both familiar and foreign, a city layered with loss, belonging, and fragile beauty. Her work resists stereotypes, presenting a city that refuses to surrender.
The exhibition is curated by Roï Saade and is organized in collaboration with SRISA Gallery / Santa Reparata International School of Art. Installation set Archivio Personale.
THE ARTIST:
Austrian-born and of Lebanese descent, Tanya Traboulsi spent her childhood traveling between two countries and two cultures. Educated in Austria, she earned a diploma in fashion design before shifting her focus to photography.
A recipient of the 2025 V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography, Traboulsi has exhibited internationally, including recent presentations of Beirut, Recurring Dream in Italy, the UK, France, Belgium, Spain, Morocco, and Dubai. Her collaborative project Le Rocher was featured at Mucem in Marseille, while previous exhibitions include Kunsthalle Wien, Beirut Art Center, and Bildraum 01, among others.
Traboulsi’s work has been published in the British Journal of Photography, Aperture Magazine, WePresent Selects, Byline, Monocle, It’s Nice That, among others. Her body of work documenting the Lebanese alternative music scene was in the 2010 publication Untitled Tracks: On Alternative Music in Beirut. Her monograph, entitled Lost Strange Things: On not finding home, was published by Triton in 2014. Her book A Sea Apart, bringing together photographs from her series Beirut, Recurring Dream, was published by Out Of Place Books in November 2024.
Her first short film, Son of the Sun (2021), recounts the explosion in the port of Beirut in August 2020 and has been screened at renowned film festivals such as DIAGONALE ‘23, LE FIFA, and IDFA.
Tanya currently divides her time between Austria and Lebanon.
Website: https://www.tanyatraboulsi.com
EXHIBITION OPENING:
EXHIBITION DETAILS:
OPENING:
October 9th 2025, 6:00 pm
DATES:
October 9th-October 29th, 2025
Opening hours:
MondayーFriday: 10 am ー 7 pm
Saturday: 1 pm ー 7 pm
Sunday: 1 pm ー 4 pm
Free entrance
SPACE:
ADDRESS:
SRISA Gallery - Santa Reparata International School of Art
Via San Gallo 53/R, 50129 Firenze