Pluridisciplinary Lebanese artist, composer and visual artist, Zad Moultaka is representing Lebanon at the 57th International Contemporary Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, from 13 May to 26 November 2017.

With his monumental work ŠamaŠ, Zad Moultaka combines musical invention with visual research in a radical approach in which technology is born from the archaic. Haunted by the idea of joining the shores of East and West in a single voice, Zad Moultaka is erecting a monument to ŠamaŠ in the Arsenale Nuovissimo. The Babylonians' god of the sun and justice is depicted on the Code of Hammurabi, a tall stele considered the first law table.

By having a monumental bomber motor 'sing and setting it against a sparkling wall evoking the Golden Calf, he is attempting to conjure up the foretold Arab apocalypse with this crepuscular chanted relic.

With ŠamaŠ, Zad Moultaka confronts barbarism with his own arms in a vibrant appeal, a synergy of forms, materials and sounds under the artistic curatorship of Emmanuel Daydé, art historian and critic.