The exhibit Isn’t It About Time by Rania Stephan, Senior Fellow at Iméra from 2023 to 2025, has just opened at the Marfa’ art gallery in Beirut. The exhibition is based on the work carried out during her residency and closes on April 10th, 2026.

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Photo credit: Rania Stephan

Isn’t It About Time

Isn’t It About Time is the second solo exhibition by artist and filmmaker Rania Stephan at the Marfa’ art gallery in Beirut. The works that make up the exhibit were triggered by extensive research on science fiction, a genre the artist has been focusing on for the past few years.

In this exhibition, Rania Stephan considers how science fiction and editing both orbit around the notion of time. Appropriating the methods of an editor – part detective, part cinephile – the artist investigates how images collide and collude, multiply and subtract. The works are driven by resonances between images, still and moving, visible and invisible, revealing the trace of an unrecovered absence. The works on show are a direct result of the work carried out by Rania Stephan during her multi-year residency at Iméra.

The opening took place on Thursday, February 12th, 2026. The exhibition will run until April 10th, 2026.