The Red Castle, As It Occurred

Installation. 385 cm x 40 cm. Alchemical red ink and limestone. 2021

The Red Castle, As It Occurred deals with writings and poems that describe the architecture and spatiality of monuments. The slippage between word and image in such poems is mirrored in the imperfect preservation of historic texts. The work departs from a verse of Abbasid poet Al-Mutanabbī, in which he describes the “Red Castle”, establishing a connection with a history of architecture description and violence in poetry, while hinting at the subtle transformation of the castle from white to red.

Presented as part of Art Design Lebanon’s first exhibition titled “Everyone is the creator of one’s own faith”. Curated by Annie Vartivarian.