Description of the work

 

Metamorphoses is an immersive experience conceived from an expressionist metaphor of Beirut. We wander along a living fresco where micro-events take place: mixing photographic collages, painting and animation, the surreal landscape that delimits the panorama describes a surreal vision in which a repurposed iconography of the city's emblematic buildings embodies the memories of its inhabitants.

 

These raw monuments of the urban topography are highlighted in the composition: they are painted on a vertical wall with broad brushstrokes in bright shades of orange and levitate on the panorama of the city projected on the wall.

The decor evolves in parallel, evoking some of the major events of the city's history.

 

The orange portraits of the memory, although static, give an illusion of movement above the city: this sensation is reinforced by an animation of debris falling from the buildings. We can guess the visual metaphor of a gradual oblivion. 

 

Beirut plunges into the grayness of oblivion, it gradually detaches itself from its last links to memory and sinks further into an abstraction that blurs its landmarks.

 

Despite the transformation of the city, the memory remains intact. The process repeats itself.