SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY PRODUCTIONS

We are artists who agreed to:

Step into the unknown. Reveal our hidden quirks. Lay bare our deepest mysteries. Annihilate our ego. Embrace the thrill of glamorous failure. Publicly. For 21 days.

By stripping creativity to its raw essence, we expose the unfiltered truth of artistic creation, tearing down the walls between the process and the art lover, the collector, the poet, the curious, the curator, the enemy, and the community at large—art in its most vulnerable, honest state.

750 works on paper acquired so far. The proceeds went equally to all participating artists and curators.

We are not a gallery. We partner with galleries.

We have done it five times since 2019:

SON OF Father and Son, Music and Painting in Lynn Modallal Gallery Jul 2024 - Beirut

[The public, Amer Chamaa, Fadi Elchamaa, Semaan Khawam, Jakub Szczesny]

TABA3OD (distancing) Two artists sticking together in the time of Covid distancing Jul 2020 - Beirut

[Artists: Fadi Elchamaa, Semaan Khawam - Videographer: Lea Skayem - Music Production Amer Chamaa - Curators Lynn Modallal, Zalfa Halabi]

MAMNOU3 ELTAHZIB (no politeness) Ten artists painting in one rented space Feb 2020 - Beirut

[Artists: Petram Chalach, Louma Rabah, Aya Kazoun, Semaan Khawam, Shawki Youssef, Ghylan Safadi, Mansour elHabr, Anny Kurkdjian, Fadi Elchamaa - Curators: Lynn Modallal, Zalfa Halabi]

RAW Three artists painting in KAF Gallery June 2019 - Beirut

[Sara Chaar, Fadi Elchamaa, Semaan Khawam] 

SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY Three artists painting in KAF Gallery April 2019 - Beirut

[Fadi Elchamaa, Semaan Khawam, Ghylan Safadi]

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