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This installation had
been planned
prior to the summer war of 2006 to take place in the Hangar. Given the
severe damage incurred to the Hangar when the building directly behind
UMAM D&R’s premises was bombed and the subsequent instability of
the structure, UMAM moved instead to Zico House in what became a
cooperative effort.
Catastrophe is the
installation of Jean-Marc Nahas, an artist who lived
through and participated in the war and who sees his art as part of a
commitment to speak out against and end violence. Nahas has been
drawing and painting for approximately 20 years and his work engages
years of turbulent history in Lebanon. His doesn’t think of his work as
having a message but rather as both political and artistic and most of
all of addressing the fatal repetition of violence in Lebanon. |
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CATASTROPHE
2006
Installation produced by UMAM D&R at Zico House, Beirut
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