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Premonitions |
by Mireille Astore |
"In Premonitions I am exploring the theme of childhood in contemporary society. Premonitions, is an exhibition comprising digital photography and sculpture. The images are created and displayed using a dialogical narrative, which sets out to question what it means to be a child in the age of globalisation, wars on terrorism and the disintegration of the real." |
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The Maternal Abject |
by Mireille Astore |
"Through my research and studio practice, I search for what binds me and separates me from my children. I investigate abjection theories through Julia Kristeva and Georges Bataille and focus on a particular form I call the maternal abject. This occurs at the time an infant separates from its mother, acquires language and maps its own body. I am proposing that the mapping of the body is the point at which an individual perceives social structures and learns about prohibitions and taboos, hence the abject." |
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Honourable Fears |
by Mireille Astore |
"Honourable Fears is a photographic installation which explores the absences and spaces that are occupied by the forbidden, the unspeakable, and the Other. The installation is a bold attempt at deciphering the social psyche and an invitation to question notions of self-protection as they manifest themselves through the continuum of history." |
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Monastery |
by Rawi Hage |
"I decided one day to visit the mountains region of the north. My ancestors belonged to the land, and ruled over it until their seeds were swept by northern winds and planted in crowded, dusty, cities. That evening, the villagers held a large feast. Sacrifices were made to the Gods. There were twelve herds of swine, twelve large troops of white goats and twelve flocks of sheep, all slain and devoured by man and immortals alike..." |
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Pinholes |
by Rawi Hage |
"Through an opening in the wall he could see her, lifting the table with one hand, devouring a chicken in the other. When she looked his way, he wondered if she could see him, or at least see his open eye looking at her from that tiny little hole. The thought of her approaching him, frightened him, but looking into her stange world, her terrifying house, her gothic furniture, thrilled him to death." |
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Crime |
by Rawi Hage |
"Cheap motels all smell the same: sex and deceit. I went to my room and hid the gun under my pillow and waited for the call. 'Seven o'clock at the bar downstairs,' the voice said. All I remember was the bartender's face, a couple dancing, and a few gunshots..."
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Beirut 99, real visions |
by Greta Torossian |
The city leaves its mark on people's memory by giving them a certain "image" to more or less "important or even intimate moments of their life. As important can become some day the human power over the identity of a city. For those who live in or near a given city, the place gains a certain 'personnality' and even a certain 'soul'." |
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