Selected Exhibitions

Guest curated by Pamela Allara.

For the past quarter century, the theatre of war has been playing on an endless loop. Through five themes—Mechanized Bodies; Combat as Performance; Living in a War Zone; Conflict as Media Entertainment; and Landscape as Cemetery—the 16 artists in this exhibition explore how continuous conflict merges truth with propaganda, reality with image.

Participating artists: Matthew Arnold, Claire Beckett, Bill Burke, Bonnie Donohue, Paul Emmanuel, Harun Farocki, Coco Fusco, Adam Harvey, Ken Hruby, Lamia Joreige, Richard Mosse, Trevor Paglen, Jamal Penjweny, Sig Bang Schmidt and Steve Dalachinsky, Paul Stopforth, and Mark Tribe

Multimedia Installation (Three channel video, book & Text)|
With the participation of: Zeina Arida and Ziad Abi Azar

‘Replay’ 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.