Lahab
WORK
Lahab
visual installation
in the central court of the palace
Beiteddine Palace, Chouf, Lebanon
July 25 – September 20, 2024
PRESENTATION
This double exhibition, Lahab and Oro Terram, the bonefire and the prayer for the earth, is an echo of the harsh ordeal that this sacred land in which our country was sculpted is going through but also to this crazy flame that today is consuming the world and burning the hearts of men.
Lahab
This work was inspired by a coincidental encounter with a mysterious symbol engraved on a ruined stele in one of the Beiteddine palace gardens. It is a shape reminiscent of a sea shell or a sun with a central point. For the ancients, the radiance of the center is the base of the invisible and the inexpressible. This “sun” with its trail of 100 meters long golden carpet, sits in the large courtyard at the palace entrance, as if to attract celestial energies and immerse our bodies in a collective luminous purification.
CREDITS & PERFORMANCES
LAHAB
Beiteddine Palace, Chouf, Lebanon
July 25 – September 20, 2024
commissioned by Galerie Tanit, beyrouth – Lebanon
Special thanks to Sami Azkoul (interior designer) for manufacturing the carpet with 14,000 sheets of golden metal leaves and to Bahaa Hassan for implementing the installation.
