07/11/2025
Silent Dialogue - showcased at Villa Audi as part of the exhibition “Totems of the Present and the Absent,” curated by during
In Beirut, every corner carries both the weight of memory and the tremor of change. The city lives in tension between what has been lost and what continues to resurface. From this fragile threshold emerges an installation: a paravent and a wall, two figures locked in dialogue.
The paravent stands as a mediator between past and present, like the city itself, it occupies the in-between, Facing it, a fixed wall mirrors its form. The wall is anchored, punctuated with niches that hold fragments of Beirut.
The paravent suggests movement. The wall is still. Together, they capture the soul of Beirut, a city in constant motion, yet rooted in layers of history that never cease to surface.
At the heart of this dialogue lies the myth of Europa represented in the wood marquetry. This tale, poised between tearing away and the legacies whispers a central question: what remains of a nation when its vital forces are torn from it? Can a future be built upon the ruins of absence?
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