A landscape of the Levant painted by an Australian soldier and reproduced by Lamia Joreige in the exhibition "As I Weep" presented at the Marfa' gallery. (Credit: Youssef Itani/Studio Tajareb)
Upon entering Marfa’ gallery, two large canvases by Lamia Joreige invite visitors on a journey through time. The first, titled "Safar Barlik," depicts, in a palette of pale, blurred tones, a viaduct crossing an arid landscape; the second features a steam train emerging from a tunnel carved directly into the rock. These two paintings immediately transport visitors to the 19th-century Levant, the region of the Eastern Mediterranean encompassing present-day Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Jordan, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. A space with porous borders, open to movement and intermingling, before the French and British mandates redrew its map in the aftermath of World War I.At the entrance of the exhibition "As I Weep" by Lamia Joreige at the Marfa' gallery, two large canvases invite visitors on a journey...
Upon entering Marfa’ gallery, two large canvases by Lamia Joreige invite visitors on a journey through time. The first, titled "Safar Barlik," depicts, in a palette of pale, blurred tones, a viaduct crossing an arid landscape; the second features a steam train emerging from a tunnel carved directly into the rock. These two paintings immediately transport visitors to the 19th-century Levant, the region of the Eastern Mediterranean encompassing present-day Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Jordan, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. A space with porous borders, open to movement and intermingling, before the French and British mandates redrew its map in the aftermath of World War I.At the entrance of the exhibition "As I Weep" by Lamia Joreige at the Marfa' gallery, two large canvases invite visitors on a...
