Published 2013-12-01
“…In the early 2000s, two phenomena emerged at the same time: the sprouting in Lebanon of a video clip industry that spread throughout the Arab world and the recognition, in the field of contemporary art, of a new class of
video artists from the region. A study of these two antithetical visual forms, which differ both aesthetically, and in their resources (technical, economic) and purpose, revealed the same paradoxical logic of a “deterritorialized” image, in a place where the notion of territory is a recurring pattern of both political and symbolic lives. …”
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