Much of the installation works as a device to project dreamlike tableaux upon the walls. (Photo by Riwa Phillips, courtesy of Ayloul.)
BEIRUT — It is not uncommon for novels to be adapted for other media. Yousry Nasrallah’s 2006 movie “Bab al-Shams,” for instance, transcribed Elias Khoury’s 1998 novel of the same name (Gate of the Sun) to the big screen. In the process, the Egyptian director disciplined the torrent of sometimes contradictory tales in Khoury’s novel to fit the conventions of commercial cinema and to make its core story of love and loss accessible to a popular audience.“As If He Were Sleeping,” a mixed-media audio-visual installation opening this week for a month-long run at Zico House, has taken up a more daunting task: a spatial adaptation of the novelist’s oeuvre.One of the kinetic features of the ‘As If He Were Sleeping’ installation. (Photo by Riwa Phillips, courtesy of Ayloul.) Pascale Feghali, a former colleague of Khoury who has overseen this...
BEIRUT — It is not uncommon for novels to be adapted for other media. Yousry Nasrallah’s 2006 movie “Bab al-Shams,” for instance, transcribed Elias Khoury’s 1998 novel of the same name (Gate of the Sun) to the big screen. In the process, the Egyptian director disciplined the torrent of sometimes contradictory tales in Khoury’s novel to fit the conventions of commercial cinema and to make its core story of love and loss accessible to a popular audience.“As If He Were Sleeping,” a mixed-media audio-visual installation opening this week for a month-long run at Zico House, has taken up a more daunting task: a spatial adaptation of the novelist’s oeuvre.One of the kinetic features of the ‘As If He Were Sleeping’ installation. (Photo by Riwa Phillips, courtesy of Ayloul.) Pascale Feghali, a former colleague of Khoury who...
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