The Sursock Museum is presenting a major solo exhibition titled "Remembering the Light," featuring Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, running until Sept. 4. (Credit: Christopher Baaklini/Sursock Museum)
The Lebanese artist duo, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, is symbiotic. This solidarity between the two is necessarily a ground for osmosis. Ideas circulate from one to the other, stratify, develop, flourish and give rise to new milestones.In their everyday discourse, the word "research" is recurrent. That is the engine that makes them question, between photography, installations, video, documentary or fiction cinema, the narration, the making of images and representations, the construction of imaginaries and the writing of history."We have always been interested in the imaginary, as opposed to what we see. Our relationship with history has greatly obsessed us," emphasized Hadjithomas.Underpinning this constantly evolving work is Lebanon, a country still unable to offer a unified understanding of many of the...
The Lebanese artist duo, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, is symbiotic. This solidarity between the two is necessarily a ground for osmosis. Ideas circulate from one to the other, stratify, develop, flourish and give rise to new milestones.In their everyday discourse, the word "research" is recurrent. That is the engine that makes them question, between photography, installations, video, documentary or fiction cinema, the narration, the making of images and representations, the construction of imaginaries and the writing of history."We have always been interested in the imaginary, as opposed to what we see. Our relationship with history has greatly obsessed us," emphasized Hadjithomas.Underpinning this constantly evolving work is Lebanon, a country still unable to offer a unified understanding of many of the...