Can fiction be more accurate than fact when it comes to war?
Can art heal what history erases?
Walid Raad builds fake archives — not to lie, but to make truth visible.
New piece on poetic phototherapy, memory, and Lebanon’s wounds.
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Poetic Phototherapy: Walid Raad’s Fictional Archives
In the fractured aftermath of Lebanon’s civil war, truth became both necessary and unreachable. Official archives omitted, censored, or erased events. Eyewitnesses contradicted each other or…
Bruno Habran