During these weeks of colonial war in #WestAsia and days of struggle in #Belgium, on a brutally different scale, art works are still uncertain of transport to arrive at the opening of the exhibition "#WeRefused_d" on March 12, shown at the #M_HKA in #Antwerp after #Mathaf in #Doha. Fifteen Palestinian artists are brought together in "a collective statement and a space for solidarity that echoes the Parisian Salon des Refusés of the 19th century." After six months of collaboration with the Lebanese and Palestinian artist #WalidRaad, I would be very happy to see you there and/or at the party that follows!
#Palestine

Exhibition
https://www.muhka.be/fr/exhibitions/we-refuse_d
Party https://www.muhka.be/fr/activities/ouverture-festive-de-la-nouvelle-saison-dexpositions-printemps-2026
Travelling back from the artist in residence @arteventura in Andalucía, Cacerés was the place to visit the Museo Helga Alvear.
#tejalshah
#walidraad
#junnguyenhatsushiba
#cacerés
#museo_helga_alvear
#extremadura
#art

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.

🔗 https://medium.com/full-frame/poetic-phototherapy-walid-raads-fictional-archives-22ca69b70185?sk=2c8a520825a535fa5a80782d99b44d7a

#WalidRaad #FakeArchives #ArtAndWar #MemoryPolitics #Lebanon #ContemporaryArt #Semiotics #VisualCulture

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…

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