Gallery Artists

Walid Raad
Work

Title: They thought they would be safer at home
Attributed date: 1989
Attributed to: Yussef Bitar
Production date: 2020

Yussef Bitar, Lebanon's leading car bomb investigator during the Lebanese wars, attributed his forensic acuity less to his training in French, American and Egyptian military academies than to his passion for Oriental carpets. This was confirmed after his death when the following notebook was found among his papers.

They thought they would be safer at home_Plate 007. 1997 /2020, pigmented inkjet print, 45 x 51 cm

They thought they would be safer at home_Plate 008. 1997 /2020, pigmented inkjet print, 45 x 51 cm

They thought they would be safer at home_Plate 009. 1997 /2020, pigmented inkjet print, 45 x 51 cm

They thought they would be safer at home_Plate 010. 1997 /2020, pigmented inkjet print, 45 x 51 cm

They thought they would be safer at home_Plate 011. 1997 /2020, pigmented inkjet print, 45 x 51 cm

They thought they would be safer at home_Plate 012. 1997 /2020, pigmented inkjet print, 45 x 51 cm

They thought they would be safer at home_Plate 013. 1997 /2020, pigmented inkjet print, 45 x 51 cm

They thought they would be safer at home_Plate 014. 1997 /2020, pigmented inkjet print, 45 x 51 cm

They thought they would be safer at home. 1997/2020, pigmented inkjet print, 45 x 51 cm

Title: I want to be able to welcome my father in my house again
Attributed date: 1993
Attributed to: Ghanem Mansour Raad
Production date: 2018

The following photographs are attributed to Walid Raad who donated them to The Atlas Group in 1993. In the statement accompanying the donation, Raad noted:

Throughout the war years, my father kept a diary in which he detailed the Lebanese pound's free fall, the price of construction materials, and the kinds of bombs that fell around his home.