“Perhaps no city is more contradictory than Beirut. 2024, post-explosion, post-revolution, post-financial crisis, Beirut is struggling to reinvent itself. In this interstitial moment, it is time to make a visceral diagnosis of the current situation before the cards are shuffled once again. To do so, I invite Julien Lanoo to Beirut to undertake the x-ray of a city in ruins, multi-layered, contradictory and still alive. Julien’s walk through the city is a contrasting surgery of its multiple faces where the fragments overlap; architecture, archaeology, fauna, flora and a an uncanny human presence appear under a new light. At the image, Beirut is revealed grain by grain without make-up or veils, through black and white film photographs in which the know-how of the past composes a possible future. Despite the painful past, a space opens up, and with it a new cycle, we wanted to call it, despite everything, vision.” 

written by: Karim Nader