Wall Calls for Peace

Wall Calls for Peace is one of the first works that helps to retrace the collective memory of my city Beirut. The project was launched in times of COVID, when I came to the realization how tremendous this pandemic is likely to impact our lives, as well as challenge our perceptions of what back to normal should be.  The three-dimensional collage reflects on Beirut’s cut and torn urban areas and mixed identities. Looking at urban walls as the most important elements that define social interactions and the relationships between a city and its people; I went exploring how those torn down walls in the streets of Beirut can greatly influence the city’s collective memory and give my city a brand new identity.  By overlaying random urban areas’ multifaceted traits and drawing on an eclectic mix of subject matters, languages, cultures, my artwork becomes a hybrid language of remixed identities that have been revisited from their actual contexts to reinvent a new form of modern urbanity.  Wall Calls for Peace has helped retrace a new city where urban spaces are freed from sector and neighborhood boundaries, linear maps and historical borders. It also carries the uprising voice of Beirut’s inhabitants that call for a citizen-led state relation, transcends sectarian divides, and embodies the unity that they aspire to, since October Revolution.