→ Dia Mrad

Dia Mrad is a Lebanese visual artist based in Beirut. Intersecting his training in Architecture (MArch) with a documentary photographic approach, Mrad tracks shifts in the built environment to uncover hidden narratives of human activity embedded within the materiality of cities. Mrad believes architecture shapes our collective memory, storing and reflecting historical moments that influenced the development of our identity and its transience. By framing, isolating, and decoding elements in the urban sphere, he identifies landmarks that encapsulate a place’s political, ecological, economic, and social dynamics, stimulating reflection on contemporary societal challenges. His practice focuses on the material urban landscape as a site of socio-political and economic phenomena. Mrad trained at The Holy Spirit University of Kaslik in Lebanon and has exhibited in Lebanon and internationally in the US, Brazil, Europe, UAE, and Saudi Arabia.