About The Book
Where Do I Go? is a new photobook by Rania Matar presenting approximately 128 color portraits of young women living in Lebanon today. Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the Lebanese Civil War, the book reflects life in a nation still shaped by decades of upheaval. Rather than centering destruction, Matar directs her lens toward creativity, resilience, and dignity in uncertain times. The title derives from graffiti she encountered on an abandoned wall, a question that reverberates throughout the work: “Where do I go?” Publisher’s Info
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About The Artist
As a Lebanese-American artist and mother, Matar’s cross-cultural experience and personal narrative inform her photography.
Her work has been widely exhibited in museums worldwide including Museum of Fine Arts/Boston, LACMA, ICA/Boston, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Cleveland Museum of Art, L’Institut du Monde Arabe, Fotografiska, and more. It is part of the permanent collections of numerous museums.
In addition to Where Do I Go? published with Eskenazi Museum, Matar published four books: SHE (Radius, 2021), L’Enfant-Femme (Damiani, 2016), A Girl and Her Room, (Umbrage Editions, 2012), Ordinary Lives (Quantuck Lane Press, 2009). Link.
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Specifics
Rania Matar: Where Do I Go? (KAPH, 2026) | Essays by Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert, Kim Ghattas, Youmna Melhem Chamieh, and Georges Boustany | Co-published by the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University | Cloth hardcover | 240 Pages, 139 color ills., 10 x 12 in. | Designed by Clara Sancho. Link.
An accompanying exhibition, Rania Matar: Where Do I Go?, لوين روح؟, opens March 5 and runs through August 2, 2026, at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. Link.
