Two Suns in a Sunset
- AboutTwo Suns in a Sunset, 2016
Part 1 of I Stared At Beauty So Much project
Diasec, 51 x 120 cm
Edition of 5 + 2 AP Two Suns in a Sunset is a series of more than 50 panoramic images of Beirut taken at different times of day and with different shutter speeds. As one observes the series, the images become strangely animated, simultaneously evoking arrested or suspended time and an unstoppable ever-present movement. As time, space, and movement contend with one another, the constant state of imminence imposed onto Lebanon by the country’s socio and geopolitical structure manifests through the panoramic images in the photo series. Nature is reversed, many suns appear on multiplied horizons and temporality becomes over-imposed; impossible images are created, evoking otherworldly visions. - Other Installations
The artists’ video work Waiting for the Barbarians,based on the eponymous poem by Constantine Cavafy, originated from this photographic series. The video is an animated shot which travels over the images in the Two Suns in a Sunset series.
