This Way (Beirut)
This Way (Beirut)
site-specific street signs
(vinyl lettering on metal)
c-prints / 36 x 30 inches, 2012
I commissioned street signs for political organizations that no longer exist or have never existed, and placed them throughout Beirut. The work explores social movements in Lebanon in the 60s and 70s, and the renaissance of leftist politics across the Arab world then and now. The signs connect and overlap references to popular and political history, reflecting a promising yet disparate moment.
Ouds
He Came to Stay
Eyeless in Gaza
Victim of the Former Victim
Twentieth Century Pleasures
Dirty Dick
Mercenaries
Weighted Flag
*Atrocity Fatigue/*Untiring Resistance
Lion of Manara
Don’t Ever Work
By Hook or by Crook
How to Own Certain Artworks by Famous Artists for Cheap
Force would vanish from the relations of men
Haunting Piece
Razorblade Piece
Zarqawi Walk
Beard Burn
Self-immolation is pretty pretentious (Baise-moi)
First American Moslem Mosque
De-Patriotizing the Cemetery
The Example Set by the Soil
Home Is Where the Heart Is
Two Syllables
Our Story