Commissioned photographic documentation of the Material Memory terracotta series, part of We Design Beirut 2025, featuring designs by Tamar Hadechian & Muller Aprahamian in collaboration with Müller Industries.
The exhibition takes place in the former teinturerie of Abroyan, a longitudinal industrial space with wooden floors, high ceilings, and a rhythm of windows and beams that carry the memory of its manufacturing past. Once a site of dyeing and drying, the architecture becomes a stage for a dialogue between earth and fire, glass and clay, industry and craft. The project unfolds across two gestures: a live glassblowing installation brings making into the space, where artisans transform molten material through breath and heat, while an installation explores clay through the five elements — earth, water, air, fire, and ether — alongside the human hand, producing works between industrial language and handmade expression. Unifying both is TERRAFORMA, a large-scale installation of tiles, claustra, roof elements, and modular terracotta forms by Müller Industries, assembled into a shifting terrain that begins as an ordered floor beneath the glassblowing stations and dissolves into a chaotic field of textures and patterns, culminating in an earthenware garden where industrial geometries give rise to unexpected sculptural forms.
ROLE: PHOTOGRAPHER AND POST-PRODUCTION (COLOR GRADING & RETOUCHING)
