Still life with neon, fridge and beer, 2018

Still life with neon, fridge and beer is an installation with a 1:1 replica of the neon of “Torino Express”- a bar in Beirut whose name references the train to Torino, and a fridge filled with “Al Arz” beers - a brand of beer available in restaurants in Europe which claims to be from Lebanon but is actually not produced or sold there. The installation creates an impossible bar where these two found objects meet and are activated.

A Short History of Lebanon, 2018

A Short History of Lebanon is a custom made bookcase that can hold all 200 SAS novels. SAS is a series of pulp erotic novels written between 1965 and 2013 by Gerard de Villiers. Besides several particularities (like all the covers featuring a woman brandishing a gun), these novels all contained actual intelligence information that de Viliers was privy to due to his work as a journalist. In a sense, these works of fiction hold within them evidence of truth. 6 of the 200 novels take place in Lebanon and were released before or right after major historical moments in the life of the country. As such these pulp novels offer an alternative way of writing the history of Lebanon that has since its independence in 1946 never had a common textbook on its own history.