A thousand suns in the dark

A thousand suns in the dark is an optical research on darkness in the context of Lebanon. It concerns the relationship between technique, aesthetics and politics within photography and addresses the specific ways of seeing that pertain to the Lebanese space; which embodies both impossibility (of projecting a future) and imminence (of the past wars to become fully present again). It proposes work which has been produced entirely in the dark and reflects on darkness as a distinct perception and a generative space. The presented works expose different kinds of light and matter directly on photosensitive paper, looking to extract from the depth of an existent image, a new one, that was longing to appear.

Duo show with Gabriella Choueifaty
Developed at the Beirut Printmaking Studio
Exhibited at ARTLAB Gallery, Beirut with the support of the British Council in Lebanon