Context of the production: Chatine, Tannourine, Lebanon. Lockdown 2020. Gilbert Hage's second summer residence (photographer). VERSUS. Survival effort of tulip bulbs buried 1450-1600 meters under (model and muse of the photographer).
Gilbert Hage photographs the tulips which have sprouted from their bulb and evolved into flowers; however, it is not time T of flowering and blossoming that is …
Gilbert Hage photographs the tulips which have sprouted from their bulb and evolved into flowers; however, it is not time T of flowering and blossoming that is captured by the photographic eye of the artist, rather the entire invisible and elusive temporality of the bulbs' long survival process under the frozen Lebanese soil. How do we define the act of …
