Yara Labaky

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Beyrouth Catharsis

The memory of the Lebanese Civil War is one of the biggest issues to have confronted the Lebanese people to date. The collective amnesia that has set in since the end of the war has engendered a sense of confusion in a population that is already too fragmented by a community-based political system. This imbroglio has informed the thought and the work of the “artists of memory” who take channel this amnesia into the reproduction of archives, blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality. This is the reality of the present, attesting to the need for a palimpsest that remains unsatisfied, justifying the necessity of my memory work.

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Aurélien Lemonier

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Heritage,
Public Spaces,
Restoration

LEBANON. Civil War 1978, Raymond Depardon

« Le Liban flotte entre l’image de ce qu’il n’est plus et l’image de ce qu’il n’est pas. » Monique Bellan

Photographies prises pendant la guerre civile libanaise, 1975

« L’art produit tandis que la guerre détruit. Le processus artistique se nourrit ainsi de la guerre. » Monique Bellan

File Type A, Walid Raad, The Atlas Group