The window display of the exhibition "All the people I talk to say it will last a long time" at Galerie[S] Mortier in Paris.(Credit: Courtesy of the gallery)
"Everyone I talk to says it’s going to last a long time." The title of the Galerie[S] Mortier exhibition echoes the epilogue of the video by Grégory Buchakjian and Valérie Cachard, "Agenda" 1979."We created it in response to an invitation from the Opéra national du Rhin for its 2021 festival on Lebanon, 'Arsmondo.' It was built around a 1979 planner we found in an abandoned building in Hamra, which belonged to a PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) fighter. His writings record a training he underwent in the Soviet Union, focused on weapons and explosives. It’s very technical and filled with chemical formulas. After the Beirut port explosions, this object had a special place in our work, since it mentions ammonium nitrate..." explains Buchakjian. The "military engineering manual," as the...
"Everyone I talk to says it’s going to last a long time." The title of the Galerie[S] Mortier exhibition echoes the epilogue of the video by Grégory Buchakjian and Valérie Cachard, "Agenda" 1979."We created it in response to an invitation from the Opéra national du Rhin for its 2021 festival on Lebanon, 'Arsmondo.' It was built around a 1979 planner we found in an abandoned building in Hamra, which belonged to a PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) fighter. His writings record a training he underwent in the Soviet Union, focused on weapons and explosives. It’s very technical and filled with chemical formulas. After the Beirut port explosions, this object had a special place in our work, since it mentions ammonium nitrate..." explains Buchakjian. The "military engineering manual,"...
