Neruda's Flowers, 2009
Neruda's Flowers, 2009
Nabih Awada (1972) is a Lebanese Resistance fighter who joined the Communist Party when he was fourteen years old. In 1988, he was captured by the Israelis in South Lebanon when he was sixteen and was sent to prison in Israel, where he spent 10 years. Nabih used to correspond with his family through the Red Cross, often drawing flowers in his letters, and used to sign with his party's nickname, Neruda, .
In this work, the artist wiped off Nabih's words with an electronic eraser, erasing the words but keeping the flowers.
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Neruda's Flowers, 2009, C-print, framed (Triptych), 80 x 62,5 cm each
In This House, 2004-2012
In This House, 2005
Following the Israeli withdrawal from Ain el Mir in 1985, the village became the frontline. The Dagher family was displaced from their home, which was occupied by a radical resistance group for seven years. When the war ended in 1991, Ali Hashisho, a member of the Lebanese resistance stationed in the Dagher family house, wrote a letter to them justifying his occupation there, and welcoming them back home. He placed the letter inside the empty case of a B-10, 82mm mortar, and buried it in the garden. In November 2002, Akram Zaatari headed to Ain el Mir to excavate Ali's letter.