Two-channel video installation Super 8 Negative transferred to HD, 6' Beirut 2013
Visit to the white house 1, is a failed three dimensional two channel video loop installation using an old photography technique and applying it to motion film, the so-called "stereoscope" technique which was used in earlier times to create an illusion of a three dimensional image. Commissioned for the exhibition Journeys Through our Heritage in Beirut exhibition center, curated by Janine Maamari and Marie tomb, revisiting Lebanese modern art era and its heritage.
This installation is a visit to the white house of the family Basbous standing in the north of Lebanon on a mountain hill called Rachana. Built in the late 60's, with neither corners nor angles, the white house was meant to host the workshop of Michel Basbous a renowned Lebanese sculpture artist that after studying and teaching in Beirut and France he came back to his native village Rachana in 1958 where he exhibited his sculptures in the open air, and made Rachana into an artistic and cultural center. This house changed quickly into a private residential house. Today his wife the poet Therese Aouad, lives inside the white big sculpture.
Poem: Therese Aouad
Soundtrack: Christian Blumberg
Comissioned for the exhbition Journeys through our heritage - BEC - 2011
Travel grant: Cimetta Foundation
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