Crafting Memory Lane, 2017. High-definition single-channel video (color), 1/1 (Ed. of 1 + AP) / 7min.39sec., loop.
Cafe Gallery Project, London. Various dimensions. 2017
Crafting Memory Lane 2, The Odious Smell of Truth, 2017. Hockney Gallery, London
Crafting Memory Lane, Two Sequences, 2017. High-definition video (color). 42sec loop,
Minecraft imagery, archived photographs of the Lebanese civil war, drone footage of conflict zones. Three different ways of seeing destruction: the game, the archive, the aerial view. Layered together with voices recounting memories of growing up during the war, fighter jets in the background.
Sound passes through barriers. It fills space. It sculpts the void.
The work is viewed from a tête-à-tête rocking chair, two people sitting back to back. One watching. One only listening. The rocking chair is designed for comfortable relaxation. The unease is deliberate.
Crafting Memory Lane 2: The Odious Smell of Truth takes its subtitle from a phrase used by Kissinger during the Watergate crisis. Adopted as the title of RAGE Collective’s first exhibition at the Royal College of Art in 2017. The truth that power finds unbearable.