Works

The End Of … (2007)

Series of 11 Prints
C.prints mounted on diasec

View of ‘The end of…’ at Espace Kettaneh, Beirut 2007

View of ‘The end of…’ at Espace Kettaneh, Beirut 2007

View of ‘The end of…’ at Espace Kettaneh, Beirut 2007

Irak (1960)
25 x 100 cm

A Day at the Beach
60 x 90 cm

Anonymous Man
60 x 90 cm

South
80 x 140 cm

A Drifting Soul 68 x 90 cm

The Unscrutable
80 x 120 cm

Nakoura
80 x 120 cm

A Frontier to Unknown
80 x 120 cm

A Strange Feeling of Familiarity
90 x 120 cm

Beirut
90 x 120 cm

Remains of Remains
90 x 120 cm

The End Of … (2007)

Series of 11 C. prints mounted on Diasec

The series of prints ‘The end of…’ are all «mental images» made of photo-montages or single images transformed. I used images from Super 8, video and written notes assembled over years. They are reminiscences of a history with gaps. The process of memory, through the recording of traces as well as erasing and diverting, is visible on the physical texture of the images. Images from archives diverted from their origin and recreated in other geographies, images disappearing. Images-fragments, words bursting out, taking on a new meaning. Though they represent post-wars landscapes and specific places in Lebanon, the non-realistic, poetic imagery of the series ‘The end of…’, with an emphasis on images vanishing, is a mean to reflect on violence, loss and disillusion. There are not mere beautiful landscapes but hold, underlying within them,  the experience of tensions and conflicts. Rather than engaging in any political statement they express a sense of despair and disillusion critical of all ideologies.