0303 Furn ElHarra
Pop-up
24/25.04.2025
Christian Sleiman & Renoz
Furn ElHarra (Arabic for Neighborhood bakery)
Furn ElHarra is a collaborative, site-specific installation by Christian Sleimanand Renoz that transforms 200CENT into a functioning Lebanese bakery-improvised, familiar, and dislocated.
Manakish is served: thin, warm bread, za’atar-covered and slightly charred, carrying recipes and memory across branches and borders.
‘Furn ElHarra’ translates from Arabic to “the neighborhood bakery,” though the neighborhood rarely stays put. This is a reimagined bakery where time runs in loops. Newspapers are served too—but the headlines repeat themselves.
Furn ElHarra is a collaborative, site-specific installation by Christian Sleimanand Renoz that transforms 200CENT into a functioning Lebanese bakery-improvised, familiar, and dislocated.
What does it take to live here?
We reach for what we know: we plant, we cook, we rebuild.
We gather fragments-gestures that bind us to the past while forging space for something new.
Furn ElHarra is a site built from memory, but not trapped in it.
The manakish served are thin, warm, and slightly charred. Theycome with a newspaper. Headlines blur across time. New wars echo old ones. Migration becomes less a rupture than a rhythm. The clock in the bakery loops endlessly. Bread is made even when no one is there to eat. Yet, people do arrive. Strangers gather. The smell of za'atar invites pause, even if briefly. The city absorbs its presence without fully knowing what it means. Like other spaces shaped by migrating communities, the bakery opens small cracks in the structures surrounding it-glimpses of another way to exist, not built on permanence, but on relation.
Christian Sleiman is a visual artist whose work centers on food politics. Renoz is a visual artist focused on the urban environment. Together, at 200CENT, they explore the intersection of their practices—where food systems meet cityscapes, and politics permeate everyday life.
Find out more about Chris’s work here.
Find out more about Renoz here.