God Bless Our Home [2010]

Lebanon

Medium: Small format | Dispositive [Provia, 200asa] | Nikon 35mm

These houses do not exist in the genuine; they are present without presence.
I become present there. This is the truth of my existence in the absent world.

As one lives in a world of objects that are constantly changing and moving, “organizing” and “arranging”’ become a body-will, and desires become “intensities” and “forces” that create “space and time” transformations. By discovering abandoned houses and uninhabited buildings in Lebanon, and collecting what the city has thrown away, as well as reusing household waste; waste that is transformed into decorative objects and implemented in abandoned houses, with an emphasis on recycling and reuse, and by spreading awareness of environmental protection, reducing pollution – and preserving Lebanese heritage and nature. Abandoned places become alive, and human waste becomes ‘PRESENCE’ –
a new place for the body to recover abused spaces – a seat for the mind to fully recover lost spaces.