Video-performance and closing event

A single image—a fragment of Beirut’s coastline— flashes for a moment on a suspended screen before vanishing into long sequences of black, like an imprint on our retinas: we’re not sure if we really saw it, or only imagined it. Playing with notions of ambiguity, doubt, and hindsight, the work offers a space of slow perception, where the image embodies a spatial and temporal disjunction. Oscillating between presence and disappearance, it summons a vulnerable, porous glance and questions what may resist being seen.

In an attempt to fix the ungraspable, the image becomes a trace, a threshold between absence and return, between what we forget and what we should finally see. This perceptive and memorial space constructs itself as a heterotopia: another, unstable space where our relationships to territory, boundaries, trace and perception are displaced and inverted.