View of a corner of Gilbert Hage’s photographic installation at Gallery Tanit, Beirut. (Photo taken from the gallery’s Instagram page)
Maintained "to offer visitors an escape from the daily reality of war," as gallery owner Naila Kettaneh-Kunigk points out, Gilbert Hage's photography exhibition at Gallery Tanit in Beirut does indeed, at first glance, disconnect visitors from the distressing context into which the local population has once again been plunged. Of art and war Lebanon: Drawing the war in real time It is an invitation to escape, a kind of wandering in an imagination marked by a childhood memory of the photographer, as suggested by the title: "I Was Seven The Day I Came Back Home Completely Soaked." Sudden downpour? Childhood water fight? Falling into a pool? The guessing game begins, and with naive curiosity — forgetting that this photographer's work is never what one would expect — we make our way to the gallery in Mar...
Maintained "to offer visitors an escape from the daily reality of war," as gallery owner Naila Kettaneh-Kunigk points out, Gilbert Hage's photography exhibition at Gallery Tanit in Beirut does indeed, at first glance, disconnect visitors from the distressing context into which the local population has once again been plunged. Of art and war Lebanon: Drawing the war in real time It is an invitation to escape, a kind of wandering in an imagination marked by a childhood memory of the photographer, as suggested by the title: "I Was Seven The Day I Came Back Home Completely Soaked." Sudden downpour? Childhood water fight? Falling into a pool? The guessing game begins, and with naive curiosity — forgetting that this photographer's work is never what one would expect — we make our way to the gallery in...
