About Artist
Born in Beirut, Rania Stephan graduated in cinema studies from La Trobe University, Melbourne and University of Paris VIII. Her career in film has been long and diverse. She has worked as a first assistant with renowned filmmakers and as a camera person and editor with researchers in social sciences and documentarians in producing films such as Procession of the Captives: A Shiite Tragedy (2006), Waiting for Abu Zayd (2011), Catherine ou le corps de la passion (2012), and Panoptic (2017).
She has directed short- and medium-length videos and creative documentaries. Anchored in the turbulent reality of her country, her documentaries give a personal perspective to political events. She intertwines raw images with a poetic edge; chance encounters are captured with compassion and humor.
The work on archival material has been an underlying inquiry in her artistic work. Her most recent work investigates forgotten images and sounds that haunt the present. By juxtaposing them with new ones, she explores a diversity of meanings, triggering renewed narratives and emotions.
Her artistic work explores how still and moving images collide and collude, multiply and subtract. Part detective and part cinephile, she approaches images like an editor; she traces absences and remembrances that are originary to those images. Her first feature film, The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni, received international acclaim and won many prizes, including the Artist’s Prize at Sharjah Biennale 10 (UAE, 2011).
Conditions
The following conditions of sale describe the relationship between the Institute for Palestine Studies-USA and the buyers, prospective buyers, and bidders for the Keyword: Palestine II Art Exhibition and Auction which will begin on March 2nd, 2020, and end on December 31st, 2020. By using this website to buy, bid, or inquire about any artwork, you agree to be bound by these conditions.
When you place a bid on any artwork, you are accepting personal liability for the purchase price, any applicable taxes, any and all shipping and packing costs, and all other applicable charges. Any artwork bought by residents of the District of Columbia will be subjected to a 6% sales tax on the market value of the artwork. All U.S. resident buyers can claim tax deductions on amounts that exceed the market value of the artwork. Market value of artwork is their starting value.
Bid winners can pick up the artwork they bought from the Institute for Palestine Studies-USA or have the Institute arrange for shipment, however, reiterating, that the buyer is responsible for all packing and shipment costs.
There will be ten (10) bidding cycles. Each cycle will close on the last day of the month at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (USA) at which time the highest bidder for the art will be notified of their winning bid.
Please note that all bids are final once submitted and may not be cancelled or modified by you, except with our express written consent under circumstances that we consider appropriate at our sole discretion. Please also note that all sales are final.