Lamia Joreige: Memory, Representation, Lebanon
19 April, 2016 to 22 May, 2016
AV Gallery
Lamia Joreige, still from the film "Object of War No. 2," 2003, 85 minute video, Courtesy the artist and Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York.
Lamia Joreige (b.1972 Beirut, Lebanon) is of a generation who experienced the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1989/90) at a young age. She is associated with a post-war group of Lebanese artists which emerged during the 1990s. During this period both video art and film production had increased institutional support allowing the art-forms to develop to a level which would have been otherwise difficult during a phase of national re-construction. For Joreige, and many other film and video productions, the Civil War itself became a focal point for the exploration of memory and enquiry into how such lived experiences may be re-told – whether be they auto-biographical or biographical, actual recollections or fictitious narratives.
The exhibition features two videos from Lamia Joreige’s Objects of War series (Part Two 2003 and Part Six 2014). These works explore memory through individual testimony, in which war-time stories are retold with reference to a nominated object that became dear to each individual during the course of the War.