As Night Comes When Day Is Gone

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    As Night Comes When Day Is Gone, 2022
    Part 2 of Museum Melancholy project
    Sursock Museum (Lebanon) CCTV recordings, August 4th, 2020
    Activation
    12 screens and 2 projections synchronised
    2 mins loop
  • Artworks reach us after facing wars, catastrophes or tragic events.

    Some of these artworks have been traversed by the explosion of August 4th, 2020 which destroyed in a fraction of a second a third of Beirut and its inhabitants.

    Are those artworks still the same?

    The videos captured at Sursock Museum the day of the blast show the extreme fragility of people, artworks and institutions and reveal ghostly apparitions.

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