A Guided Tour: Remembering the Light

Join artist Khalil Joreige and archaeologist Hadi Choueri for the final guided tour of Joana Hadjithomas and Joreige’s exhibition Remembering the Light.

Remembering the Light draws its title from a video work created in 2016, in which the artists experimented with the spectrum of light underwater and the luminescence that surfaces in its depths. Similarly, throughout the exhibition, Hadjithomas and Joreige summon poetic imagery to speak to the present. In the process of creation, they initiated a series of collaborations with geologists, archaeologists, poets, divers and scientists — inviting new forms and ways of thinking about materiality, repair, and regeneration.

The exhibition features several works from their ongoing series I Stared at Beauty So Much, inspired by poets such as Constantin Cavafy, Etel Adnan, and Georges Seferis, where poetry becomes a means of confronting chaos. Other projects from the past decade, such as Unconformities, recipient of the 2017 Duchamp Prize, delve into the layers of soil and the material traces of archaeological and geological time in cities, here Beirut, Tripoli and Athens. With Museum Melancholy, the artists investigate how catastrophe impacts art—how it transforms objects, landscapes, bodies, and our ways of seeing and showing, in times of rupture.

In English – Duration: 1 hour
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