On Parallel Worlds, 2020

On Parallel Worlds unearths and monumentalizes the raw, collective consciousness of the 2020 Lebanese revolution. During a period of profound socio-political rupture, the citizens of Beirut transformed the physical walls of the city into an urgent, living parchment inscribing their deepest worries, structural demands, and human rights directly onto the concrete.

By meticulously isolating these original street writings from their chaotic public environments, the work recontextualizes them as sacred historical manuscripts. Superimposed onto a structural grammar of classical pillars and delicate, domestic lace tablecloths, these fleeting cries are given an intentional, elevated permanence. The pillars frame the words as enduring architectural load-bearers of history, while the lace introduces a tactile, fragile domestic intimacy evoking the private homes and upended lives behind the public rebellion. Stripped of their immediate context, these isolated graffiti fragments transcend mere protest art; they become the city’s testimonies, operating between parallel dimensions of immediate crisis and archived memory.