Modern RuinsAs I gaze upon the city’s urban landscape, I am met with numerous monuments, structures, and objects. Often, these remnants are the residue of development projects that faltered and, neglected, become fixtures of the streets, gradually melding into the urban scenery while losing their original functionality. These objects evolve into modern ruins. In Lebanon, the law does not permit outdated public investments or development projects that require replacement to be sold. Instead, they must either remain in junkyards or in the public space where they were originally installed, further embedding them into the landscape as abandoned relics of failed urban planning.
Modern Ruins 2
Modern Ruins - Comissioned by TAP for In The Blink Of An Eye
Laser print paste-up on beirut municipality billboard
Beirut, Lebanon
Beirut River Tap
Beirut River Tap
Spraypaint on concrete wall
2024
Urinator
Urinator
Spray paint on concrete
2023
Beirut, Lebanon
Explosives Experts
This intervention takes place in a junkyard managed by the Ministry of Interior, where ISF (Internal Security Forces) vehicles are abandoned to decay. Among them is a vehicle retrieved from the vicinity of the Beirut Port explosion site.
A vinyl sticker reading "Explosives Experts" is applied to the side of the vehicle, a cynical critique aimed at highlighting the absence and failure of those tasked with managing explosive threats. The intervention underscores the irony and tragic negligence that allowed a catastrophic event to unfold—an explosion that nearly obliterated half of Beirut.
Vinyl sticker on ISF Vehicle
2022
Beirut, Lebanon
Nesting
A nest symbolizes our innate desire for a safe haven—a sanctuary where we can nurture, grow, and feel protected. It represents home, the final bastion of security. But as society edges closer to a dystopian state, even this sanctuary is no longer safe. Our nests lie vulnerable, subject to the whims of those entrusted to protect and serve.
In this harsh reality, we do not thrive; we merely survive. We adapt to an ever-shifting environment, reshaping our expectations, aspirations, and dreams to fit the confines of the new hell we inhabit. Survival becomes our focus as growth fades into a distant memory.
There will be no savior, no phoenix rising from the ashes, no second coming. Clinging to beliefs, faith, and hope, we accept diminishing freedoms, surrendering more with each passing day. Yet there is no divine intervention to rescue us; the solution lies within.
Our plight is born of our collective failure to secure the environment we all share. True safety is unattainable without mutual responsibility. Until we acknowledge this truth, our sanctuaries will remain fragile, and our survival, tenuous.
Nesting - For Ruins squat exhibited curated by Jofre Oliveras
Found wooden windows and doors
3m diameter
2021
Nesting 2
The installation was exhibited at Arte laguna
3m diameter
Venice, Italy
2021
In Case Of Revolution
In Case Of Revolution
Spray Paint On Shattered Glass
Beirut, Lebanon
2019