Lamia Joreige
The end of... A strange feeling of familiarity
2007
| C- prints mounted on Diasec | 80 x 120 cm
The prints in the series The end of... have been
created through photomontage or the manipulation of single
photographs. To produce them, Lamia Joreige has drawn on films
and videos as well as written notes that have been collected
over numerous years. The result is a work of art that reflects
a recollection of a history which suffers from great gaps.
Here, the nature of memory, with its limited ability of recording
traces and its inclination to be erased and become confounded,
is made visible through the murky appearance of the images.
These images are fragments of pictures that have been dug
up from archives; they have been removed from their origins
and hazily reproduced in new geographies (contexts). The non-realistic,
poetic scenes of Joreige’s series, which seem as though to
be vanishing, are, in fact, a meditation on violence and loss.
Rather than engaging in any political statement, the photographs
express a sense of despair and disillusion that is critical
of all current ideologies.
Born in Beirut in 1972, Lamia Joreige is a painter and video
artist who lives and works in Beirut. She combines archival
documents with fictitious elements in order to delve into
the possibilities for representation of the Lebanese wars
and their aftermaths. Joreige's work essentially revolves
around the traces of Time and in particular its effect on
memory.
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