Even Light is a Few Minutes Late

Even Light Is a Few Minutes Late explores the trajectories through which violence and perception circulate, sometimes slowly, often deferred, through displaced mechanisms, spaces, bodies and lives. Building on different forms of latency, the work creates a link between two sites separated by physical and geopolitical distance, and time zones: the Mediterranean corniche of Beirut and the tranquil shores of Laval.

Through minimal means—audio, video, human presence—Even Light is a Few Minutes Late encompasses a mindful and porous experience. Within it, two temporal systems converge: one saturated with alerts, the other steeped in silence. Whether it be the buzzing of a drone in Lebanon or the sociopolitical realities of North America, the work presents these contexts through the same rustling of instability. What’s at stake: the structures of visibility, surveillance and comfort, and what these notions leave out.

Even Light is a Few Minutes Late sets up a space of interference. A site where what takes a few minutes to reach us—such as light and what has reverberated elsewhere—might still have the power to disrupt, here.

Kodeih’s project unfolds in two parts. First, a discreet presence makes us hear, with some delay, audio fragments originating from Beirut. Then, in conclusion, an image flashes for a moment in the dark before vanishing into long sequences of black.