Selected Exhibitions
Hamra Street Project, Beirut (2000)
Ashkal Alwan
Beirut, Lebanon
Curated by Ashkal Alwan ( the Lebanese association for plastic art)
In 2000, curator Christine Tohme invited thirteen artists to reflect on the recent history of Hamra Street and explore its image, as one of Beirut busiest and renowned street during pre-war time.
The exhibition, which included several site specific works, was the third intervention in public space organized by Ashkal Alwan. It included works by Rita Aoun, Tony Chakar, Mahmoud Hojeij, Lamia Joreige, Bilal Khbeiz, Nesrine Khodr, Rabil Mroueh (with Fairouz Serhal), Walid Sadek, Ghassan Salhab, Salah Saouli, Jalal Toufic, Nadine Touma and Akram Zaatari. They were installed in different sites of the street such as the former movie theaters Hamra, Strand and Colisée cinemas, as well as a rolling commercial billboard.
Hamra Street Project, Beirut (2000)
Curated by Ashkal Alwan ( the Lebanese association for plastic art)
In 2000, curator Christine Tohme invited thirteen artists to reflect on the recent history of Hamra Street and explore its image, as one of Beirut busiest and renowned street during pre-war time.
The exhibition, which included several site specific works, was the third intervention in public space organized by Ashkal Alwan. It included works by Rita Aoun, Tony Chakar, Mahmoud Hojeij, Lamia Joreige, Bilal Khbeiz, Nesrine Khodr, Rabil Mroueh (with Fairouz Serhal), Walid Sadek, Ghassan Salhab, Salah Saouli, Jalal Toufic, Nadine Touma and Akram Zaatari. They were installed in different sites of the street such as the former movie theaters Hamra, Strand and Colisée cinemas, as well as a rolling commercial billboard.
Replay
The three-channel video installation Replay was created specifically for the ‘Hamra Street Project’. It explores the idea of rupture of time / within time, of rupture as violence and possible death. Two photographs – fragments – of the Lebanese war, are chosen to be re-enacted by two performers, a man and a woman. The book from which these photographs are taken is displayed in a small window, as an archival reference. We can see on each of the three aligned screens of equal size, a video projected in loop: A man never stops falling, never stops dying (right screen). A woman never stops running, never stop escaping (left screen). Two bodies separated by the immutable sea (middle screen), are perpetuating a vain act.