Artist in Person

Tonight Jayce Salloum, curator of our New Arab Video series, will present two of his own works, part of his ongoing Untitled project, a series of videos addressing social and political realities.

In Part 1: everything and nothing (43 mins), Salloum, off-camera, asks questions of Soha Bechara, the ex-Lebanese National Resistance fighter who was detained for ten years in the notorious El-Khiam torture and interrogation center in South Lebanon. In a riveting and intimate conversation, Salloum inquires about home, ordinary days, being interviewed, and the distance between Paris, where Bechara now lives, and Khiam.

In Part 2: beauty and the east (work-in-progress, c. 25 min. clip) Salloum turns to the former Yugoslavia. In a kaleidoscope of interviews, refugees, migrants, asylum seekers, and residents address topics ranging from identity and fascism to optimism and monsters. In both anecdotal and theoretical recountings, they lay out the issues currently at stake in this region of displacement and redefinition; their words are located within Salloum's images of cities and landscapes.