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Monday 19 August 2013

Sunday 18 August 2013

X-APARTMENTS PROJECT (HUSSIN TAHA' HOUSE) 2013

about X-Apartments ,Beirut
about the apartments

Just off Rue Saad, an apartment-sized installation opens onto a cleared salon whose bookshelf-lined walls are covered in white lace. Through this veil you can make out black-and-white photos spanning the lives of the family members who once lived here.

A laptop’s speakers conjure up the ghosted sounds of the household residents, raising questions of how the photos (and crystallized memories) on display relate to the present and to the strangers invited to scrutinize them.

In the adjoining bedroom, you help your guide raise the mattress to find an ad hoc photo collage. A handsome mustachioed man poses beside his beaming spouse. Some years earlier, the same man in a Speedo poses at the beach. Glamorous revelers pose before a sumptuous feast. Children smile mischievous from birthday parties.

Near the end of the Rue Saad installation tour, participants are led to a north-facing balcony-cum-bedroom that highlights Khandaq al-Ghamiq’s spatial tenuousness. Its panoramic view sets the quarter’s complex of vibrant street life and gorgeous structural dereliction against the sanitized facades and vacant order of Solidere, the real estate developer.

Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Performance/2013/May-14/216969-cutting-edge-theater-in-khandaq-al-ghamiq.ashx#ixzz2cjjxyCVO
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)