Selected Exhibitions

Permanent Collection

Objects of War (1999 – Ongoing)
Videos & Objects

The work on display in the permanent collection at Tate Modern, features ‘Objects of War’ n• 1, 2, 3 and 4. In this series of testimonials on the Lebanese war, each person chooses an object, ordinary or unusual, which serves as a starting point for his / her story. These testimonials while helping to create a collective memory, also show the impossibility of telling a single History of this war. Only fragments of this History are recounted here, held as truth by those expressing them. In Objects of War, the aim is not to reveal a truth but rather to gather and confront many diverse versions and discourses on the subject.
Objects of War was first shown in 2000, assembling the testimonials of eleven persons. It continued in 2003 with Objects of War n°2, recording seven additional testimonials. This time however, and since then, the recorded material is left unedited, shown in its integrity. The work of collecting and assembling these stories continued with Objects of War n°3 and n°4 in 2006 and n°5 & 6 in 2014.