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Dia Mrad is an artist and researcher investigating the entanglements between materiality, governance, and systemic intelligence. Trained as an architect and working between Beirut and various regional cities, his practice integrates photography, material interventions, and, recently, AI-driven systems to reveal the latent structures shaping urban life. By treating objects—not only buildings but also policies, legal frameworks, and infrastructures—as active agents, his work reconfigures our understanding of urban transformation beyond human intent and control.

His projects examine how power operates through material traces—whether in destruction, adaptation, or systemic neglect. Engaging with the tensions between visibility and erasure, Mrad investigates how governance manifests in the built environment, how infrastructure encodes histories of collapse, and how urban debris functions as both archive and artifact. His work moves between documentation and speculation, proposing new frameworks for understanding the agency of objects and the governance of systems.

Recent works include The World of Objects, an AI-driven governance platform mapping policy as a network of human and non-human actors; Rent Acts 159/92, 160/92, a public intervention critiquing Lebanon’s rent laws; and Tradition of Change, an archive of demolished spaces in Saudi Arabia that repositions debris as an active participant in urban history.






Exhibitions

28.02.2024—ongoing Again, and Again, and Again.
Durational Performance at a private villa in Dubai. Read more. 


01—07.02.2024Pluto in Retrospective 
An impromptu 4-year retrospective in Beirut. Read more.


27.12.2023—27.12.2023Atelier 2214
Open studio at Cite Internationale des Arts. Paris, France. Read more.


01—15.06.2023Tradition of Change
Open studio at Misk Art Institute. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Read more.









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