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Les Mouettes 1
2018
120 x 100 cm
Print on wall, cassette and plastic chair
Blus Plaster. When I think of memory, I think of fragments, bits and pieces of the past that resurface. When I think of war, I think of the word break. When memory is broken by destruction and only ruins remain, I wonder what it produces , perhaps a new memory grafted onto the old one, making recollection more complex. We’re no longer sure of its truth. This image is part of a series where I found broken tiles that once made up a swimming pool. I placed them on my diaries from the 1980s — and I started to look.
Karine Wehbé is an artist and graphic designer based in Beirut. She obtained a diploma in Graphic Arts from the Paris School of Graphic Arts (Esag Penninghen) in 1996. She has exhibited her work at the Beirut Art Center (2008), co-directed “Summer 91” (2014), winning the Pavilion Award and Sacem Prize. Wehbe went on to co-direct “It’s the war in Syria that killed her” (2016) that screened at Videoworks and Pantin Festival. More recently, Wehbe created the publication “Stop Here for Happy Holiday”(2017) funded by the Sharjah Biennale. Through photography, cinema, archival footage, and geographic maps her work embeds intimate and public chronicles, drawing on adolescent experiences, cinematographic and musical influences, and the mechanisms of memory and nostalgia.