08/04/2026
Nathalie Harb: Land Inventory
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On Friday, April 3, we opened the exhibition Land Inventory by multidisciplinary artist and designer Nathalie Harb at Apoteka – Space for Contemporary Art. Land Inventory is an immersive sound installation created in collaboration with Youmna Saba. Through a carefully curated inventory, field recordings from Lebanon’s most conflict-affected areas and soundscapes the work explores what remains, what has changed, and what is at risk of disappearing from Lebanon’s natural and cultural heritage—its flora, fauna, landmarks, and homes.
Reflecting on the past year through images, sounds, information, and news, Nathalie Harb creates an intimate archive of conflicting temporalities in the form of video or collage. „The past year felt both distant and immediate, shaped by the genocide in Palestine, the war in Lebanon, neofascism of Trump’s leadership reversing decades of progress“ says Harb. „Living outside Lebanon, in a western city largely unaffected by the physical violence of war, I found myself caught between personal and global time loops. The cognitive dissonance of these overlapping temporalities—coping with loss, rising violence, war and the overwhelming flow of information—shaped both my experience of the world and the art-making process.“
Last year, Nathalie Harb was an artist-in-residence at the KAMOV residency of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka, organized by the Museum and the Art Explora Foundation, where she had previously presented the installation Land Inventory / Inventar zemlje.
Nathalie Harb is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based between Paris and Beirut, focused on rethinking public space from the perspective of everyday urban practitioners in conflict-affected cities. Her work is centered around well-being and spatial justice. It challenges notions of home, shelter, and agency through different practice formats, including public interventions, installations, and scenography, sited across urban and rural contexts in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. By adopting a collaborative, horizontal approach, Harb’s projects emphasize themes of safe space and equity, with authorship shared among a diverse range of design collaborators, including musicians, acoustic consultants, permaculture experts, environmental consultants, researchers and architects.
Nathalie’s work has been shown internationally and supported by initiatives such as Unesco’s Week of Sound, the American University of Beirut’s Neighborhood Initiative, the London Design Biennale, the European Research Council, Dubai Design Week, Beirut Design Week, the London Festival of Architecture, Soncities and the Temporary Art Platform. She has also been the recipient of several residencies, including ZKU Berlin, Residencia São João in Bresil, and La Cité Internationale des Arts-Paris.
Visual: Nathalie Harb
Supported by: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, Kultura Nova Foundation, City of Vodnjan, Istria County, Vodnjan Tourist Board, Medea Wines.