This booklet is published on the occasion of the exhibition Paola Yacoub. BEY002 Daadgalerie, 08.07.21 – 19.09.21

The focus of Paola Yacoub’s artistic investigation in the exhibition BEY002 are the archaeological excavations that have taken place in the center of the city of Beirut from the 1990s to the present day. Having worked on this site as an architect for the Institut français d’archéologie du Proche-Orient from 1995 to 1999, Yacoub experimented with different surveying and recording methods – drawings, photographs, texts, and historical research – and concluded the process of this long-term investigation in 2019 with her textile piece BEY2002.