Art Installation at We Design Beirut
Art Installation at We Design Beirut
An installation that reimagines the building blocks of human connection at We Design Beirut 2025.
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By taking a block home and registering it, each visitor holds an authenticated fragment of the work. These dispersed pieces extend the installation beyond its site, carrying stories of connection, memory, and shared ritual into new contexts—transforming private spaces into quiet continuations of the collective whole.
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Infinite Bonds is a sculptural installation that reflects on community, shared rituals, and the endurance of human connection. Situated within the archaeological remains of the Roman Baths in downtown Beirut—a historic site of gathering and exchange—the work pays homage to traditions of relationship-building and collective experience.
Formed from natural marble, the installation comprises hand-sized cubic blocks, recalling the shape of traditional Lebanese soap once used in local bathing rituals. Just like soap, marble softens over time with water—a surprising commonality between two seemingly distinct materials. Each block, marked by its own unique veining, is intended to be taken by visitors. As these pieces disperse across homes, cities, and countries, they remain quietly linked
—by origin, by substance, and by the continuous marble vein that binds them.
At its core, the installation considers the building blocks of both social and physical structures. Just as children use blocks to imagine worlds, or builders to construct them, these marble forms stand as metaphors for the foundations of human connection—playful, deliberate, and enduring.
At the center, three marble towers rise as architectural gestures to resilience, memory, and time. Together with the distributed blocks, they propose a living structure of community: one carried forward, piece by piece, into the world.
Ahmad AbouZanat, founder of AHMAD ABOUZANAT STUDIO, is a US–based interior designer with a West Asian background whose practice bridges cultural memory, architecture, and contemporary form. Through interiors, objects, and site-specific works, his approach explores rituals, materials, and the ways spaces encourage human connection.
To learn more about Ahmad’s interior design work visit AHMAD ABOUZANAT STUDIO.
We Design Beirut celebrates creativity and design culture across disciplines, highlighting the power of design to connect communities. Infinite Bonds is made possible by the generous contribution of Stones by Rania Malli.
Location
VGW3+Q2G, near Nejmeh, Beirut, Lebanon
DATES
October 22–26, 2025