Suspendue (Suspended) (2006) + Dahieh (2006)
In summer 2006, Israel started a sudden war on Lebanon that lasted 34 days. In July and August 2006, I found myself stuck in Lebanon due to the war. Even though I wasn’t affected directly by the conflict that killed over 2000 people, I relived the feeling of fear and unknown that comes with war. I felt unable to express this emotion in my work during this time with the exception of one drawing.
Suspendue (Suspended) was an reenactment of those feelings that I experienced during the war. The only outlet that I had was to send text messages to Philippe Azoury who was living at in Paris, so I could survive the anxiety and the oppression. Afterwards, when I was able to create work again, I reacted this moment in Suspendue. During the war, I had wanted to film places and people’s emotions but was emotionally unable to do it, so afterwards, I actively filmed the severely bombed area of Dahieh, to understand what had happened. Exploring the impossibility to go back to this moment during the short war, the two videos also show where life starts again.