Of Places & Cannons, 2018

Presented in “How Will It End”, an exhibition co-produced by the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Boghossian Foundation in Brussels in 2021, this collage series forms part of a dialogue between the institution’s collections and works by Lebanese artists responding to the country’s history and the aftermath of the Beirut port explosion on August 4, 2020. Through the assemblage of Polaroid images depicting damaged and dismantled spaces, Kassab reconnects fragments of memory, exploring the shifting relationship between presence and absence, personal histories and collective trauma. The works reflect on the traces of destruction while searching for ways to imagine a future between loss and renewal.

Villa Empain, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, 2021.

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