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summon summarize is a curious and chaotic assemblage of research into more-than-human worlds and beings.

Lara Saab is an artist and researcher based in Beirut, Lebanon. Her work draws from environmental, pedagogical, and speculative landscapes and illustrates studies into multispecies collaborations through stories featuring an agave plant cyborg, a portal-opening ocean rock, and a haunted washing machine. These tales take on multiple forms, such as landscape paintings, sonic environments, a documentary video and performance, and a geologic poem. 

Saab recently graduated with an MFA in Social Documentation from the University of California, Santa Cruz, CA and a BA in Studio Arts from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
She was coordinator of the Home Workspace Program in Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, between 2015 and 2020 and program director in 2023.


Email: lara.saab.14@gmail.com

Instagram: @summon_summarize
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