A graduate of Ashkal Alwan’s Home Workspace Program, he is part of the Public Programs team at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and was a 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale Fellow with the Canada Council for the Arts. His work has been presented at the Institut du monde arabe (Paris), Galerie Tanit (Beirut), and Manif d’art – Québec City Biennial, with a forthcoming presentation at MUZEU in Braga, Portugal. His work is held in the collections of the Institut du monde arabe (Donation Claude & France Lemand), Dalloul Art Foundation, and Beirut Museum of Art.
El Mina, Tripoli, Lebanon
Black-and-white analog photographs, shot on a 35 mm panoramic film camera. 9 sequences.
The Act of Impulsively Claiming Space documents Elias Nafaa working on his drawing series Impulsions. The performative act is recorded as nine panoramic sequences, photographed and developed by architect and photographer Elie Elkhoury.
The series was produced during Work in Process, an artist-led residency in El Mina, Tripoli (Lebanon), in August 2021, supported by Mophradat.