Lily Abichahine

Born in Beirut/Lebanon in 1985.

Lily Abichahine is a lawyer, researcher and artist. She graduated from the Law School of Saint Joseph University (2007) and Paris Descartes University (2008), subsequently training to become an attorney-at-law at the Beirut Bar Association, and served as a legal counsel and researcher in Lebanon, France, and the Netherlands.

After obtaining her BA and MA degrees in Performing Arts from Paris VIII University in 2018 and 2019 respectively, she developed her artistic practice in the form of lecture-performances, installations and videos, exploring the intersectionality between art and law, as presented in her works: Exquisite Corpse (2021, Frankfurt/Germany, lecture-performance), L’Étreinte (2022, Paris/France, lecture), Abjad Hawwaz: How I Was Destroyed By a Mall Thrice (2022, Beirut, installation), and the ongoing project Mare Nostrum / Our Sea (since 2021: Choreography for a Woman and a Stone,  2021, Palermo/Italy, performance; Secrets of the Infinite Sea, 2022, Bremen/Germany, lecture-performance; Tantalus Cries, 2026, Athens/Greece, lecture-performance).

Her interests center around international law and legalities, geopolitics, art history, archeology and anthropology.