Thalia Bassim
About
Thalia Bassim is a Lebanese visual artist, photographer, and storyteller based between New York and Beirut. Her practice explores memory, inheritance, and the emotional landscapes of place, often working with photography as a means of tracing personal and collective histories. Moving between documentation and constructed narrative, she returns to familiar sites, gestures, and archives to examine how time reshapes meaning and identity. Bassim’s work is rooted in Lebanon, where family history, landscape, and repetition form an ongoing dialogue between past and present. She also incorporates AI image-making as part of her broader visual practice, expanding how images can be constructed, altered, and reinterpreted. Through this combination of processes, she reflects on what is preserved, what is transformed, and what resists disappearance.
Background
Alongside her artistic practice, she works in media, communications, and production, bringing a multidisciplinary approach to storytelling across platforms. Her work is driven by a commitment to creating images that hold memory, tension, and continuity in fragile balance.
Solo exhibitions
- Maybe Scan Yourself? — Beirut, 2022
- Fake Park: Are you Subject to Change? — Beirut, 2021
- What has Become of Me? — Beirut, 2022
Group exhibitions
- Poetry in Space — Shatr Collective, Beirut, 2023
- Let The Whole Goddamn Thing Short-Circuit — Toxi Space, Zurich, 2023
- Scratch the surface, touch the sun — TAP, Niha, 2022
- I don’t want to talk but — Zico House, Beirut, 2021
Publications
- Dazed MENA, 2025
- Al-Hayya Magazine, Beirut, 2022
- The Common Table, 2021
Performance
- Audio Performance with Rayyan Abdel Khalek — Beirut Synth Center, 2022