Marwan Rechmaoui: But the trees kept voting for the axe.
MARWAN RECHMAOUI
But the trees kept voting for the axe
April 15 - August 12, 2021
beirut
Gallery 6.08, 2020
Gallery 6.08, 2020
On August 4, 2020 Lebanon was rocked by an explosion at the port of Beirut located 900 meters away from Sfeir-Semler Gallery. The space was completed devastated by the blast. The artist recuperated around 600 kilograms of metal from the destroyed walls structures, and compressed them into 34 elements; a memorial to crushed lives, futures and memories.
Marwan Rechmaoui, Gallery 6.08, 2020, Exhibition view, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut, 2021
Gallery I-IV, 2020
After the explosion, Marwan Rechmaoui recovered destroyed window frames from a heap of aluminum debris, mounting them on wooden panels and assembling them into hanging mobiles.
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Marwan Rechmaoui, Gallery I-IV, 2020, Exhibition view, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut, 2021
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Marwan Rechmaoui, Gallery I-IV, 2020, Exhibition view, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut, 2021