EVENT: 'Levant' photography exhibit at OSU-Tulsa
DATE: Now through April 8
TULSA – A photography exhibit by M. Teresa Valero titled "the Levant: Lebanon and Syria Through Western Eyes" will be on display through April 8 in the photography gallery in Oklahoma State University-Tulsa’s Conference Center at 700 North Greenwood Ave.
Valero, director of the School of Art at the University of Tulsa, has been traveling to Lebanon and Syria since 2002. During her most recent trip, Valero began creating a travelogue of images inspired by her interest in the social, religious and economic realities of life in these societies.
“The Levant” is the name for the group of countries that border the eastern Mediterranean Sea - Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Turkey and part of Egypt. Valero said she chose the name as the title for her exhibition because it “so aptly expresses the paradox that emerged for me from the scenes and faces I captured. Like the sun that will always rise as it has since time began, everyday chores and habits have not changed for centuries. At the same time, each revolution of the earth brings a new day, in which people change, culture mutates, and unpredictable events unfold.
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