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Of Mice and Wars – Work in Progress (1986)
2025
300 x 300 cm
Flex print
Mickey Mouse. I made it during the war, while my family and I were exiled in France. The piece appears reversed—nightmare or wonder? It becomes a fragile relic of exile, a child’s attempt to remember and to forget at once. It recalls another haunting image from a Belgian television report during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982: “It’s like a balloon, but it’s poison.
Nasri Sayegh (b. 1978, Lebanon) is a Lebanese-French visual artist, writer, actor, and DJ, and the founder of radiokarantina. His practice – spanning photography, collage, and cross-stitch embroidery – engages with the transient, the blurred, and the unstable, where images hover on the verge of disappearance. First initiated in 1986 and sustained over time, embroidery has become a core thread of his artistic practice. Drawing from his personal visual archives, Sayegh dismantles and reconfigures images to construct a subjective historiography. Through processes of excavation and cross-referencing, fragmentation generates new strata of images and text, where the image functions both as a visual notebook and as a catalyst for writing.