Beirut is a city that has many faces: An antique city, a medieval city, the city of the 19th and 20th century and a contemporary city.
The Lebanese civil war but also the reconstruction period destroyed everything related to the old Beirut. Today, it remains only a little number of buildings dating from the Ottoman period.
As a part of this work, I wanted to show the actual and the old city in its ugliness and in its beauty.
I wanted to pay a tribute to this city, and present a series of work between acrylics painting, marker, soft and hard pastels, pencils, collages and photography to show it diversity.
Some of my works are related to the actual city that looks more like Dubai, but others gives a view of the old houses with their specificities, their triples arcades and their colors.
In another work, I made a video named « The History of Someone » I used slides found in an old house, I imagined the interests, the passions, the life of the person who lived in this house.
With old music partitions, found in the same house, I made a collage.
Finally I inspired myself from old slides, where the subject has been totally erased and left only traces, adversely affected by the ravages of time and neglect, giving upon arrival a total abstract work. The using of those slides, permitted me to create an intimate work.
The Lebanese civil war but also the reconstruction period destroyed everything related to the old Beirut. Today, it remains only a little number of buildings dating from the Ottoman period.
As a part of this work, I wanted to show the actual and the old city in its ugliness and in its beauty.
I wanted to pay a tribute to this city, and present a series of work between acrylics painting, marker, soft and hard pastels, pencils, collages and photography to show it diversity.
Some of my works are related to the actual city that looks more like Dubai, but others gives a view of the old houses with their specificities, their triples arcades and their colors.
In another work, I made a video named « The History of Someone » I used slides found in an old house, I imagined the interests, the passions, the life of the person who lived in this house.
With old music partitions, found in the same house, I made a collage.
Finally I inspired myself from old slides, where the subject has been totally erased and left only traces, adversely affected by the ravages of time and neglect, giving upon arrival a total abstract work. The using of those slides, permitted me to create an intimate work.
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Welcome To Beirut City
Marker on cardboard 42x30 cm
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This drawing represent a more smiling and cheerful image of the city and demonstrate that despite all the de- structions, there is still some colored buildings,roads ,and real urbanity as a hope message supported by the use of brightly colored felt.
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City
Acrylic on cardboard 40x30 cm Another representation of the city. |
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Chaos
Collage on cardboard 40x30 cm This collage made from photographs shows one of the darkest aspects of Beirut. A city that grows haphazardly and in the chaos in the absence of any development plan. |
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Windows
Collage on cardboard 40x29 cm |
In this work, I dressed with images,a photograph of a house that no longer exists, taken by a
photographer 30 years ago. These
collages have allowed me to show
the diversity and the richness of Beirut
from before, the archways, wooden
windows, stained glass and colored
walls.
Old houses and buildings of 2 or 3 floors that were
there not long ago the identity of the city are
now replaced by tall buildings and skyscrapers
from 10 to 40 floors. The city, like men, are now
crushed by this verticality which has an important
impact on the whole social life. Beirut now
resembles those cities born from the desert and
the emptiness. To adopt this new face she had to delete large sections of its architectural and
human history.To better show the verticality I used black and white charcoal and dark colors of pastels.
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Verticality 1
Pencil on cardboard 42x30 cm
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Verticality 2
Hard and Soft pastels on cardboard 42x18 cm |
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Airplaine View
China Ink on cardboard 42x30 cm |
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Music
Collage on cardboard 50x36 cm |
This collage made from paper and
extracts from musical scores found
in a half-destroyed house, allowed me to imagine the musical tastes of the person who left it there, bringing, through writing in Arabic and French, my personal song.
in a half-destroyed house, allowed me to imagine the musical tastes of the person who left it there, bringing, through writing in Arabic and French, my personal song.
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Merging
Collage and Aquarelle on cardboard 42x30 cm I used slides found in an old house to build in this drawing an imaginary city. |
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A little movie made about a old
house.
Click on the following link to see the Video: https://vimeo.com/86916042 |
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