About

Since 1989, Walid Raad has dedicated himself to The Atlas Group (1989-2004), an art project that concentrates on the Lebanese wars of the past few decades. With his project, Raad created a number of documents (films, videotapes, notebooks, photographs) that he attributed to various imaginary individuals or organizations. Raad’s works engages how “certain events may have been lived but not experienced,” and his documents attempt to fill this gap (even if in fiction). As such, his works consider how events of physical and psychological violence may be documented and their histories written.
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