Bio
Ahmad Ghaddar aka Renoz is a Lebanese multidisciplinary artist based in Catalonia whose practice exists at the intersection of urban art, studio work, and culinary practice. Trained at the Lebanese University, his work is heavily informed by the environments he inhabits, exploring how people navigate, adapt to, and reshape the public and private spaces around them. Grounded in an investigative approach, Ghaddar selects repeated everyday phenomena—objects, habits, systems, or spatial hacks—as starting points to deconstruct the socio-political forces that dictate urban life. His current research treats cooking and ancestral food preservation as a "portable territory," positioning the kitchen and communal gathering as vital sites of memory, resilience, and cultural resistance against systemic erasure.
Project Description
Thermal Memory asks: How can ancient pyrotechnologies and culinary architectures activate cold archival data into a warm social body? Grounded in the lineage of the Levantine earth oven (tabun/tannour), this project at
Imagine IC & The Need for Legacy rejects institutional archiving that "freezes" history. It proposes that an oven’s thermodynamic capacity to store and release heat is a material metaphor for how communities retain and distribute marginalized memory through active practice.
