A view of “Baqun” at Union Marks: the portrait of Lokman Slim dominates the exhibition dedicated to the memory of political assassinations. (Credit: Lokman Slim Foundation)
At Union Marks in Burj Hammoud, silence is not an emptiness: it is filled with absences. Five years after the assassination of Lokman Slim, the exhibition "Baqoun" ("Remaining" in English and "Nous restons" in French) turns this silence into light setting the stubborn persistence of memory against erasure.Organized by the Lokman Slim Foundation, UMAM Documentation & Research, and Dar al-Jadeed publishing house, it revives through images the haunting questions of impunity in a country where political violence has become entrenched and where justice remains unfinished. Read more Joseph Aphram paints the deep forces within the human psyche Produced over three years by French photographer Édouard Élias and curated by Katia Jarjoura, the photographs revolve around a powerful intuition: that a presence...
At Union Marks in Burj Hammoud, silence is not an emptiness: it is filled with absences. Five years after the assassination of Lokman Slim, the exhibition "Baqoun" ("Remaining" in English and "Nous restons" in French) turns this silence into light setting the stubborn persistence of memory against erasure.Organized by the Lokman Slim Foundation, UMAM Documentation & Research, and Dar al-Jadeed publishing house, it revives through images the haunting questions of impunity in a country where political violence has become entrenched and where justice remains unfinished. Read more Joseph Aphram paints the deep forces within the human psyche Produced over three years by French photographer Édouard Élias and curated by Katia Jarjoura, the photographs revolve around a powerful intuition: that a...