Rabih Mroué was born in Beirut and currently lives in Berlin. He is a theater director, actor, visual artist, and playwright. He works at the interface of performance and visual arts and often combines mundane, real-life material with fictitious narratives, connecting aesthetic and political research in an interrogation of the ways we see and speak. His most recent solo exhibition is Under the Carpet, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2022) and his works include Borborygmus (2019), Kill the Audience (2018), Sand in the Eyes (2017), Ode to Joy (2015), Riding on a cloud, (2013), 33 RPM and a Few Seconds (2012), The Pixelated Revolution (2012), The Inhabitants of Images (2008), and Who’s Afraid of Representation (2005). He was a fellow at the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures”, Freie Universität Berlin (2012–15) and 2020 recipient of the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research. Mroué is a contributing editor to TDR/The Drama Review and co-founder of the Beirut Art Center.