Works

Multimedia Installation
Three videos, book and text
Concept, camera, text, and production: Lamia Joreige
Co-produced by Ashkal Alwan (The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts).

With the participation of: Zeina Arida and Ziad Abi Azar
Book reference: La guerre du Liban (Images et chronologies), Dar Al – Massira, 1978

‘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.