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like the delayed rays of a star: Reframing the gaze in Beirut, Lebanon
Heather O'Brien Takahashi
Friday, March 22 - 11:00AM to 12:00PM
Kingsbury
This photographic, film/video, and text-based installation and accompanying book immerse the viewer into the artist's Ottoman-era home in Beirut, Lebanon. The presentation questions a domestic gaze in photography amid the country's economic collapse. What does mean that the artist gave birth to her first child on August 4, 2020--the same day as the catastrophic Beirut Explosion? The images confront this terror by documenting a confluence of smoke, fruit, shattered glass, plants, and exhaust fumes with the subtleties of passing time ruptured by light; nuanced moments draw inward, decentering the authorial lens, intentionally shifting how mediated photographs affect one's community.
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Heather M. O'Brien Takahashi
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